parser

fast-ini-parser

Parses INI files to AST with great performance.

• Extremely fast.
• Offers ES, CJS and UMD modules.
• Includes TypeScript types.
• No dependencies.
• Small size - 4.47 kB minified, 1.95 kB gzipped, 1.79 kB brotlied.

This is currently work in progress.

Synopsis

import { parseText } from 'fast-ini-parser'

const ini = `
scope = global

[database]
user = dbuser
password = dbpassword
database = use_this_database
`

const ast = parseText(ini)

// Result:
//
// {
//   "type": "File",
//   "body": [...]
// }

API

See also the TypeScript types.

parseText(input: string, options?: Options): object

Parses a text string with INI file contents to AST.

parseTokens(input: string, tokens: object[], options?: Options): object

Parses an array of tokens converted from a text string with INI file contents to AST.

tokenize(input: string, options?: Options): object[]

Converts a text string with INI file contents to an array of tokens.

startTokenization(input: string, options?: Options): generator

Returns a generator yielding tokens from a text string with INI file contents.

Options

• tokens: if set to true, a property tokes pointing to an array of tokens will be attached to the AST root (File)
• comments: if set to true, comments will be included in the extrated tokens
• whitespace: if set to true, whitespace will be included in the extrated tokens
• locations: if set to true, node locations (line, column) will be included in the AST
• ranges: if set to true, node ranges (offset, length) will be included in the AST
• raw: if set to true, raw names will be included in the AST (names are converted to lower-case)
• sourceFile: source file name to use in error messages ("ini" by default)
• onCreateNode: a function to be called whenever an AST node has been created
• onCreateToken: a function to be called whenever a token has been extracted

onCreateNode: (node: object): void

onCreateToken: (token: object): void