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bytecodealliance / jco

JavaScript tooling for working with WebAssembly Components
https://bytecodealliance.github.io/jco/
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Better errors when failing to parse a wit directory #442

Open bakkot opened 1 month ago

bakkot commented 1 month ago

I wanted to try the fancy new feature to generate types from a directory, so I made a directory with two .wit files and ran node src/jco.js types ./wit-dir -o ./types, which produced

(jco types) ComponentError: failed to parse package: /code/jco/wit-dir
    at generateTypes (file:///code/jco/obj/js-component-bindgen-component.js:3976:11)
    at typesComponent (file:///code/jco/src/cmd/transpile.js:45:29)
    at async types (file:///code/jco/src/cmd/transpile.js:18:17)
    at async file:///code/jco/src/jco.js:186:9

Which is really not a helpful error.

Eventually by looking at the tests folder I was able to figure out that I'm supposed to have a single .wit file at the top level of wit-dir and put other files under the deps folder, but I don't know how I was supposed to figure that out without looking at the tests.

Also, on a related note, when there's a syntax error in the top-level .wit file it says failed to parse package:/code/jco/wit-dir rather than naming the file, or giving any information about what the error is.