SSLR stands for SonarSource Language Recognizer, this is a lightweight Java library which provides all the required material to analyse any piece of source code. For the time being, by using SSLR you can quickly create a lexer, a parser and some AST visitors to implement for instance some quality rules or to compute some measures. This library is already used in Sonar by the JavaScriptthe Java, JavaScript, COBOL, C#, Python, PL/SQL, C, /C++, Flex, etc. .. plugins.
Source Code : https://github.com/SonarSource/sslr
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- Easy integration and use
- Just add a dependency on a jar file (or several jar according to what you want to use : lexer/parser, xpath, common rules, symbol table, ...)
- No special step to add to the build process
- No "untouchable" generated code
- Everything in java
- Definition of grammar and lexer directly in code using Java
- No break in IDE support (syntax highlighting, code navigation, refactoring, etc)
- Mature and production ready
- This technology is already used in production to analyse millions of COBOL, PL/SQL, CJava, C, C#, ... lines of code
- Awesome performances
- Some common rules and basic metric computations available out-of-the-box
- XPath library to query the AST
- Toolkit to browse the AST of any source code and to evaluate XPath expressions on it
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