I know autocompletion would be quite hard, having to possibly parse .bzl files too (I don't think there's any API or command to list arguments given a rule or function, even less so a skylark rule or macro –there's Skydoc but it only generates documentation, though its code could probably be reused–), but at a minimum completing:
- rule and macro names (from the predefined list and the
load() arguments in the file)
- target labels from the workspace (if there's a
WORKSPACE file, aggregate all names from all BUILD files, or run a bazel query to gather them)
would be huge!
I understand that, as of now, this extension is “only” leveraging the Python syntax highlighting rules, tweaked for Bazel, and adding anything else would probably be a big effort, so only suggesting the improvement here.
I know autocompletion would be quite hard, having to possibly parse
.bzlfiles too (I don't think there's any API or command to list arguments given a rule or function, even less so a skylark rule or macro –there's Skydoc but it only generates documentation, though its code could probably be reused–), but at a minimum completing:load()arguments in the file)WORKSPACEfile, aggregate all names from allBUILDfiles, or run abazel queryto gather them)would be huge!
I understand that, as of now, this extension is “only” leveraging the Python syntax highlighting rules, tweaked for Bazel, and adding anything else would probably be a big effort, so only suggesting the improvement here.