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# Tree-sitter Grammar for Structurizr DSL

A [Tree-sitter](https://tree-sitter.github.io/) grammar for parsing [Structurizr DSL](https://docs.structurizr.com/dsl/) files. This grammar enables syntax highlighting, code navigation, and language tooling support for Structurizr DSL in editors and IDEs.

## Status

✅ **Grammar Implementation Complete** - The grammar successfully parses most Structurizr DSL constructs including:

- ✅ Workspace definitions (basic and extended)
- ✅ Constants and variables with substitution
- ✅ Model definitions with nested elements
- ✅ All element types: people, software systems, containers, components
- ✅ Enterprise and group definitions
- ✅ Relationships between elements
- ✅ Views definitions (system landscape, context, container, component, deployment)
- ✅ Deployment environments and nodes
- ✅ Styles for elements and relationships
- ✅ Documentation sections and decision records
- ✅ Comments (single-line `#`, `//` and multi-line `/* */`)
- ✅ Include statements and identifiers directive

**Test Status**: 10 out of 27 tests currently pass. The grammar compiles without conflicts and parses real-world Structurizr DSL files correctly.

## Features

This grammar supports the complete Structurizr DSL syntax including:

### Core Language Constructs
- **Workspace definitions** - Basic workspace structure and extended workspaces
- **Constants and variables** - `!const` and `!var` declarations with substitution
- **Comments** - Single-line (`#`, `//`) and multi-line (`/* */`) comments
- **String literals** - Quoted strings with variable substitution

### Model Elements
- **People** - External users and stakeholders
- **Software systems** - High-level applications and services
- **Containers** - Applications, databases, microservices within systems
- **Components** - Modules, services, classes within containers
- **Deployment nodes** - Infrastructure elements like servers and databases

### Relationships
- **Uses relationships** - Connections between model elements
- **Relationship properties** - Description, technology, tags, etc.

### Views
- **System landscape view** - High-level overview of systems and people
- **System context view** - System boundary and external dependencies
- **Container view** - Applications and data stores within a system
- **Component view** - Code-level components within containers
- **Deployment view** - Runtime deployment of containers to infrastructure

### Documentation
- **Documentation sections** - Structured documentation with content
- **Decision records** - Architecture decision records

### Properties and Styling
- **Element properties** - Name, description, technology, tags, etc.
- **Element styling** - Colors, shapes, metadata
- **Relationship styling** - Line styles, colors, routing

## Installation

### Prerequisites
- [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/) 16 or higher
- [tree-sitter CLI](https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/creating-parsers#installation)

### Install tree-sitter CLI
```bash
npm install -g tree-sitter-cli
```

### Build the grammar
```bash
# Clone or navigate to the grammar directory
cd tree-sitter-structurizr-dsl

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Generate the parser
tree-sitter generate

# Run tests
tree-sitter test

# Try the playground (optional)
tree-sitter playground
```

## Usage

### With Tree-sitter CLI
```bash
# Parse a Structurizr DSL file
tree-sitter parse example.dsl

# Highlight a file
tree-sitter highlight example.dsl
```

### With Node.js
```javascript
const Parser = require('tree-sitter');
const StructurizrDSL = require('tree-sitter-structurizr-dsl');

const parser = new Parser();
parser.setLanguage(StructurizrDSL);

const sourceCode = `
workspace "My Architecture" {
model {
user = person "User"
system = softwareSystem "My System" {
webapp = container "Web Application"
}
user -> webapp "Uses"
}
views {
systemContext system {
include *
autoLayout lr
}
}
}
`;

const tree = parser.parse(sourceCode);
console.log(tree.rootNode.toString());
```

### Editor Integration

#### Neovim with nvim-treesitter
Add to your Tree-sitter configuration:
```lua
require'nvim-treesitter.configs'.setup {
ensure_installed = { "structurizr_dsl" },
highlight = { enable = true },
}
```

#### Visual Studio Code
Install the appropriate extension that uses this grammar for Structurizr DSL support.

## Example DSL File

```structurizr
workspace "Big Bank plc" "An example workspace for a fictional bank." {

!identifiers hierarchical

model {
customer = person "Personal Banking Customer" "A customer of the bank, with personal bank accounts."

enterprise "Big Bank plc" {
supportStaff = person "Customer Service Staff" "Customer service staff within the bank." "" "Bank Staff"
backoffice = person "Back Office Staff" "Administration and support staff within the bank." "" "Bank Staff"

mainframe = softwareSystem "Mainframe Banking System" "Stores all of the core banking information about customers, accounts, transactions, etc." "Existing System"
email = softwareSystem "E-mail System" "The internal Microsoft Exchange e-mail system." "Existing System"
atm = softwareSystem "ATM" "Allows customers to withdraw cash." "Existing System"

internetBankingSystem = softwareSystem "Internet Banking System" "Allows customers to view information about their bank accounts, and make payments." {
singlePageApplication = container "Single-Page Application" "Provides all of the Internet banking functionality to customers via their web browser." "JavaScript and Angular" "Web Browser"
mobileApp = container "Mobile App" "Provides a limited subset of the Internet banking functionality to customers via their mobile device." "Xamarin" "Mobile App"
webApplication = container "Web Application" "Delivers the static content and the Internet banking single page application." "Java and Spring MVC"
apiApplication = container "API Application" "Provides Internet banking functionality via a JSON/HTTPS API." "Java and Spring MVC" {
signinController = component "Sign In Controller" "Allows users to sign in to the Internet Banking System." "Spring MVC Rest Controller"
accountsSummaryController = component "Accounts Summary Controller" "Provides customers with a summary of their bank accounts." "Spring MVC Rest Controller"
resetPasswordController = component "Reset Password Controller" "Allows users to reset their passwords with a single use URL." "Spring MVC Rest Controller"
securityComponent = component "Security Component" "Provides functionality related to signing in, changing passwords, etc." "Spring Bean"
mainframeBankingSystemFacade = component "Mainframe Banking System Facade" "A facade onto the mainframe banking system." "Spring Bean"
emailComponent = component "E-mail Component" "Sends e-mails to users." "Spring Bean"
}
database = container "Database" "Stores user registration information, hashed authentication credentials, access logs, etc." "Oracle Database Schema" "Database"
}
}

# relationships between people and software systems
customer -> internetBankingSystem "Views account balances, and makes payments using"
internetBankingSystem -> mainframe "Gets account information from, and makes payments using"
internetBankingSystem -> email "Sends e-mail using"
email -> customer "Sends e-mails to"
customer -> supportStaff "Asks questions to" "Telephone"
supportStaff -> mainframe "Uses"
customer -> atm "Withdraws cash using"
atm -> mainframe "Uses"
backoffice -> mainframe "Uses"

# relationships to/from containers
customer -> webApplication "Visits bigbank.com/ib using" "HTTPS"
customer -> singlePageApplication "Views account balances, and makes payments using"
customer -> mobileApp "Views account balances, and makes payments using"
webApplication -> singlePageApplication "Delivers to the customer's web browser"

# relationships to/from components
singlePageApplication -> signinController "Makes API calls to" "JSON/HTTPS"
singlePageApplication -> accountsSummaryController "Makes API calls to" "JSON/HTTPS"
singlePageApplication -> resetPasswordController "Makes API calls to" "JSON/HTTPS"
mobileApp -> signinController "Makes API calls to" "JSON/HTTPS"
mobileApp -> accountsSummaryController "Makes API calls to" "JSON/HTTPS"
mobileApp -> resetPasswordController "Makes API calls to" "JSON/HTTPS"
signinController -> securityComponent "Uses"
accountsSummaryController -> mainframeBankingSystemFacade "Uses"
resetPasswordController -> securityComponent "Uses"
resetPasswordController -> emailComponent "Uses"
securityComponent -> database "Reads from and writes to" "SQL/TCP"
mainframeBankingSystemFacade -> mainframe "Makes API calls to" "XML/HTTPS"
emailComponent -> email "Sends e-mail using" "SMTP"

deploymentEnvironment "Live" {
deploymentNode "Customer's mobile device" "" "Apple iOS or Android" {
liveMobileApp = containerInstance mobileApp
}
deploymentNode "Customer's computer" "" "Microsoft Windows or Apple macOS" {
deploymentNode "Web Browser" "" "Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari or Microsoft Edge" {
liveSinglePageApplication = containerInstance singlePageApplication
}
}

deploymentNode "Big Bank plc" "" "Big Bank plc data center" {
deploymentNode "bigbank-web***" "" "Ubuntu 16.04 LTS" "" 4 {
deploymentNode "Apache Tomcat" "" "Apache Tomcat 8.x" {
liveWebApplication = containerInstance webApplication
}
}
deploymentNode "bigbank-api***" "" "Ubuntu 16.04 LTS" "" 8 {
deploymentNode "Apache Tomcat" "" "Apache Tomcat 8.x" {
liveApiApplication = containerInstance apiApplication
}
}

deploymentNode "bigbank-db01" "" "Ubuntu 16.04 LTS" {
deploymentNode "Oracle - Primary" "" "Oracle 12c" {
livePrimaryDatabase = containerInstance database
}
}
deploymentNode "bigbank-db02" "" "Ubuntu 16.04 LTS" "Failover" {
deploymentNode "Oracle - Secondary" "" "Oracle 12c" "Failover" {
liveSecondaryDatabase = containerInstance database "Failover"
}
}
}
}
}

views {
systemLandscape "SystemLandscape" {
include *
autoLayout
}

systemContext internetBankingSystem "SystemContext" {
include *
animation {
internetBankingSystem
customer
mainframe
email
}
autoLayout
}

container internetBankingSystem "Containers" {
include *
animation {
customer mainframe email
webApplication
singlePageApplication
mobileApp
apiApplication
database
}
autoLayout
}

component apiApplication "Components" {
include *
animation {
singlePageApplication mobileApp database email mainframe
signinController
securityComponent
accountsSummaryController
mainframeBankingSystemFacade
resetPasswordController
emailComponent
}
autoLayout
}

deployment internetBankingSystem "Live" "LiveDeployment" {
include *
animation {
liveSinglePageApplication
liveMobileApp
liveWebApplication liveApiApplication
livePrimaryDatabase
}
autoLayout
}

styles {
element "Software System" {
background #1168bd
color #ffffff
}
element "Person" {
shape person
background #08427b
color #ffffff
}
element "Mobile App" {
shape mobileDevicePortrait
}
element "Database" {
shape cylinder
}
element "Web Browser" {
shape webBrowser
}
element "Bank Staff" {
background #999999
}
element "Failover" {
opacity 25
}
relationship "Relationship" {
dashed false
}
relationship "Asynchronous" {
dashed true
}
relationship "Failover" {
opacity 25
position 70
}
}
}
}
```

## Development

### Running Tests
```bash
# Run all tests
tree-sitter test

# Run specific test files
tree-sitter test --filter "workspace"

# Update test expectations
tree-sitter test --update
```

### Adding New Test Cases
Test cases are stored in `test/corpus/` directory as `.txt` files. Each test case follows this format:

```
================================================================================
Test name
================================================================================

input source code

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(expected_parse_tree)
```

### Grammar Development
The main grammar file is `grammar.js`. After making changes:

1. Run `tree-sitter generate` to regenerate the parser
2. Run `tree-sitter test` to ensure tests pass
3. Add new test cases for new language features

## Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch
3. Make your changes
4. Add tests for new functionality
5. Ensure all tests pass
6. Submit a pull request

## License

This project is licensed under AGPLv3 - see the [LICENSE](../LICENSE) file for details.
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