Eclipse LDT autocompletion

[sirinsidiator]

I finally have my autocompletion for Eclipse LDT at a point where I feel I can share it with everyone. You can find it here.

[cloudor]

I did some hack work on LDT and made it to support some more features.

Inline comment function definition:



Type reference through pairs and ipairs:



Dots support:

[sirinsidiator]

That looks interesting. Any plans for releasing it?
And one tiny suggestion. LDT already has a documentation language. Maybe you could use that instead of inventing a new one?

[cloudor]

Yes, I have been using LDT's lua doc all along, but it has many limitations. For example, there is no way to define a parameter also as a function and auto-complete it in body block, like a lamda parameter. In the following example, I can use the parameter named stringProvider to create a string.



or define the result as a function too:

[sirinsidiator]

Well. As far as I have tried it, the current auto completion doesn't really work anyways, aside from the EE I put together, so anything is better than what LDT currently offers.
But what I meant is couldn't you reuse the syntax like this:

--- @function StringProvider
--- @return #string
local function MyStringProvider()
    return ""
end
 
--- @param #StringProvider
local f = function(stringProvider)
    --- @param #number
    --- @return #boolean
    return function(n)
        local s = stringProvider()
        return n == s:l
    end
end

[cloudor]

By default luadoc convention, function definitions can not be used as type directly, you need to link them by callof annotation.

---
    [email protected] StringProvider
    
    ---
    -- @callof #StringProvider
    -- @return #string
    local function MyStringProvider()
        return ""
    end
 
    --- @param #StringProvider stringProvider
    local f = function(stringProvider)
        return function(n)
            local s = stringProvider()
            return n == s:l
        end
    end

[cloudor]

I have shared my improved version of LDT.
https://dl.bintray.com/cloudor/eclipse/ldt/

[Tar000un]

I wanted to go with eclipse and autocompletion. I wasn't able to get auto-completion with the zip from "Eclipse LDT Autocomplete" as execution environment. I tried to regen the zip with the tool on github within a container, but I got a zip size of ~40ko instead 290ko for the addon.

Additionally, I was able to get autocompletion with adding lib as external source folder, pointing a dir with uncompressed api.zip.

[sirinsidiator]

I've actually updated the script earlier and uploaded a new version of the autocompletion. There's also a tiny inconsistency in the latest ESOUIDocumentation.txt file which makes the script fail. You'll need to add underscores (_) around the argument and return names for the InsecureNext function in the txt.

[Tar000un]

Nice, for what I tested, seems working fine.
I ll check next patch about the script you commited on github. x)

And thanks.