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jwikman / nab-al-tools

The code repository for NAB AL Tools, an AL tool for VS Code
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Generate ToolTip documentation failed with error: Unsupported ToolTip Control: Repeater #464

Open buzzwick opened 1 month ago

buzzwick commented 1 month ago

AL language extension v14.0.1070882 (pre-release) NAB AL Tools v1.32.0

First time running the tool on this repository. How do I interpret this message and track down the unsupported control? Does it mean that Repeaters are unsupported, or that some Repeater has a ToolTip control?

jwikman commented 1 month ago

Hi @buzzwick,

Yes, it definitely sounds as if there is a ToolTip on a repeater control. But as this sounds strange, since AL does not allow this, I assume that there is some issue with the parsing (NAB AL Tools does its own code parsing, for different reasons).

One known limitation of NAB AL Tools is that we do not support block comments (with / and /), which can end up with really strange behavior. Do you know if that is being used in that project?

Otherwise, I think we need a repro to be able to fix this. Are you able to hunt down the file that is causing this? This can be achieved by removing objects and running the "Generate Tooltip Documentation" action until the error goes away, and then run the command on the last removed files - and repeat until one single file exists. (One advantage of our own parsing is that the project is not required to compile 🙂)

buzzwick commented 1 month ago

Hello! Thanks for the speedy response! I can do as you suggest with the smaller repo; it is a virtual certainty that there are block comments in there that I can hunt down and delete. A manual inspection did not turn up any instances of Repeaters with Tooltips, which makes sense because I agree they wouldn't be allowed in the first place. I will get rid of the comments first, and then use your method to find offending files.

On a somewhat larger repo, I do not get errors, but I get the "Generating ToolTip Documentation" for 24 hours. The fact that the tool is finding errors in the smaller repo suggests that my install and setup are correct. How would you suggest I find out what is going on with this one that runs forever?