Hi there 👋 I want to create a VSCode language plugin for Pants BUILD file (if there's one already, plz let me know), but I'm not familiar with Pants code source yet. I want to extract the functions/metadata available for the BUILD file, any suggestions to save some time on my side?

it's just a special python file that's eval'd with some automatic imports, iirc; so i've just set it to python and ignored some errors in the past

yes: it’s possible to extract symbol information for targets

$ ./pants help-all | jq ".name_to_target_type_info | keys"
[
  "archive",
  "docker_image",
  "files",
  "pex_binary",
  "python_distribution",
  "python_library",
  "python_requirement_library",
  "python_tests",
  "relocated_files",
  "resources",
  "shell_library",
  "shunit2_tests",
  "target"
]

And you can explore from there.

I have everything that I need with that 🙂

Please let us know if we can help - this would be amazing to have 🤩

Yes, if you're open to open-sourcing this, it sounds incredibly useful!

It was always the plan :)