Webidl

a parser of Web IDL
latest version v1.4 surrpots Web IDL Editor’s Draft, 6 August 2018

Installation

opam install webidl

Usage example

• gen-bs is a sample application which uses this library
  • convert Web IDL files to a bucklescript code
• an example code is the below.

let () =
  try
    Webidl.Parse.data_from_file "file.idl" (* 1. *)
    |> Webidl.Parse.show_data (* 2. *)
    |> print_string
  with
  | Webidl.Parse.Syntax_error e -> (* 3. *)
    print_string "[!]Syntax Error\nInfo:\n";
    Webidl.Parse.show_syntax_error e (* 4. *)
    |> print_string
    |> print_newline

1. Webidl.Parse.data_from_file
   This function parses webidl from file and generate OCaml data which expresses the webidl.
   The OCaml data is difined in src/lib/data.ml. Please see it if you would like to know details.
   You can access webidl by this result.

2. Webidl.Parse.show_data
   print parsed webidl data.

3. Webidl.Parse.Syntax_error e
   if there is an syntax error, exception Syntax_error is raised. e is a record which is defined in src/lib/parse.ml

4. Webidl.Parse.show_syntax_error
   print infomation of parse error