tree-sitter/lib/binding_rust/README.md
Rob Donnelly b1a4cc044d Fix Rust bindings example (#415)
`Parser::parse` returns `Option<&Tree>`.  An `unwrap()` or similar is required to get the actual `Tree`.
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Rust Tree-sitter
================
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Rust bindings to the [Tree-sitter][] parsing library.
### Basic Usage
First, create a parser:
```rust
use tree_sitter::{Parser, Language};
// ...
let mut parser = Parser::new();
```
Then assign a language to the parser. Tree-sitter languages consist of generated C code. To use them from rust, you must declare them as `extern "C"` functions and invoke them with `unsafe`:
```rust
extern "C" { fn tree_sitter_c() -> Language; }
extern "C" { fn tree_sitter_rust() -> Language; }
extern "C" { fn tree_sitter_javascript() -> Language; }
let language = unsafe { tree_sitter_rust() };
parser.set_language(language).unwrap();
```
Now you can parse source code:
```rust
let source_code = "fn test() {}";
let tree = parser.parse(source_code, None).unwrap();
let root_node = tree.root_node();
assert_eq!(root_node.kind(), "source_file");
assert_eq!(root_node.start_position().column, 0);
assert_eq!(root_node.end_position().column, 12);
```
### Editing
Once you have a syntax tree, you can update it when your source code changes. Passing in the previous edited tree makes `parse` run much more quickly:
```rust
let new_source_code = "fn test(a: u32) {}"
tree.edit(InputEdit {
start_byte: 8,
old_end_byte: 8,
new_end_byte: 14,
start_position: Point::new(0, 8),
old_end_position: Point::new(0, 8),
new_end_position: Point::new(0, 14),
});
let new_tree = parser.parse(new_source_code, Some(&tree));
```
### Text Input
The source code to parse can be provided either either as a string, a slice, a vector, or as a function that returns a slice. The text can be encoded as either UTF8 or UTF16:
```rust
// Store some source code in an array of lines.
let lines = &[
"pub fn foo() {",
" 1",
"}",
];
// Parse the source code using a custom callback. The callback is called
// with both a byte offset and a row/column offset.
let tree = parser.parse_with(&mut |_byte: u32, position: Point| -> &[u8] {
let row = position.row as usize;
let column = position.column as usize;
if row < lines.len() {
if column < lines[row].as_bytes().len() {
&lines[row].as_bytes()[column..]
} else {
"\n".as_bytes()
}
} else {
&[]
}
}, None).unwrap();
assert_eq!(
tree.root_node().to_sexp(),
"(source_file (function_item (visibility_modifier) (identifier) (parameters) (block (number_literal))))"
);
```
[tree-sitter]: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter