[Question] Serializze AST

[workgroupengineering]

Do you have any examples of how to sterilize the AST? I tried with System.Text.Json but I get empty files.

[workgroupengineering]

Any suggestions?

I was thinking of creating a class that takes advantage of the Visitor pattern. Do you think it could work?

I would like to use the AST inside AvaloniaVS instead of Avalonia.Ide.CompletionEngine but keep the decoupling from the Avalonia version.

Using the ASTA in Avalonia VS would allow you to make the Itellisense more intelligent with:

• fine the identification : the resources, styles and name of controls
• creation of editors like the color, transformations etc..
• populate Properties Window.
• etc

[kekekeks]

Avalonia.Ide.CompletionEngine is supposed to be reusable between VS extension and VSCode extension. AvaloniaVS is supposed to only provide the glue between the engine and the IDE. So ideally the code has to be structured in a way that could be reused by a different IDE.

[kekekeks]

As of serialization, I think JSON.NET supports cyclic references.

[workgroupengineering]

As of serialization, I think JSON.NET supports cyclic references.

I already tried but tried, but it gives me OutOfMemoryException.

Avalonia.Ide.CompletionEngine is supposed to be reusable between VS extension and VSCode extension. AvaloniaVS is supposed to only provide the glue between the engine and the IDE. So ideally the code has to be structured in a way that could be reused by a different IDE.

The idea is to implement an LSP so that the logic can be shared with all IDEs that support this standard.

[kekekeks]

1) new JsonSerializerSettings { PreserveReferencesHandling = PreserveReferencesHandling.Objects } 2) special converters for types from IXamlTypeSystem