Could `dep-tree entropy` take a graph (as JSON?) as input?
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Hello,
My coworker and I have been working on a project with similar goals & philosophy as dep-tree
: https://github.com/dustin/graphex
It analyzes Haskell codebases and produces the graph as JSON. And it provides a CLI to analyze deps (for instance, you can ask why
one file depends on another file to debug a tangled graph).
It already supports Looking Glass for visualization, but dep-tree entropy
looks like it would be an improvement in many ways.
I'd love to hook it up to dep-tree entropy
. But it looks like dep-tree entropy
doesn't support just giving it a graph in some standard format? And it instead couples the graph generation with the graph visualization?
If there was some JSON format I could target, I could easily write a graphex graph dep-tree
that converts graphex
's JSON format to dep-tree
's.
(I'd happily do the legwork to make this happen myself btw! If you have any pointers for getting started.)
Oh wait I found this #76
Is the format documented somewhere? Also, I don't think entropy
supports it afaict.
But I don't think you can use that, that's an output format for dumping the created graph in a json file. If I understand correctly what you want is a way to provide the already formed graph to dep-tree entropy
so that it can render it.
Right now providing an input in a standard format is not supported, the best way to achieve this would be to create a language implementation that instead of referring to an actual programming language, it would accept a json file.
I wrote a guide about how to contribute new language implementations https://github.com/gabotechs/dep-tree/blob/main/docs/IMPLEMENTING_NEW_LANGUAGES.md. Your use-case is not strictly a programming language, but the idea is pretty much the same: receive a file as an input and parse its contents in order to form the graph.
Feel free to take a look and see if that could work for you!
Sweet! Thanks for the pointers. I'll cut a PR when I get the chance 😁