Request: .cli file linter ... clint

[troglobit]

Hi, we're cross-compiling Clixon and currently, when there's a syntax error in one of the .cli files, it's not until we start the CLI on target that you get a warning:

root@infix:~# cli
/usr/lib/clixon/clispec/core-cli.cli:36: Error: syntax error: at or before: ')'
Mar 13 14:19:33: cli_load_syntax_file: 303: Plugins: failed to parse cli file /usr/lib/clixon/clispec/core-cli.cli

Is there a way to run a host-built clixon_cli in a bare-bones way¹ that it can act as a .cli file linter? Maybe I'm alone in this struggle, but if not, maybe a stripped down clixon_cli could be called clint 😃

Footnotes

1. The obvious way is of course to develop the .cli file natively first, but maybe other ppl have had the same idea for a linter? ↩

[olofhagsand]

I think you could probably use the cligen_file -f <file> utility for this, see https://github.com/clicon/cligen/blob/master/cligen_file.c

[troglobit]

I think you could probably use the cligen_file -f <file> utility for this

Nice, that'll do just fine, thanks!

[olofhagsand]

Actually I think this could just be repackacked and installed properly as a feature to be avialable at build time.
Therefore reopen.