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Parser for new LookML?

  • 21 December 2017
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fabio
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Yes, please!


Introducing Node LookML Parser - https://www.npmjs.com/package/lookml-parser


(Disclaimer: I made this myself - it is provided 100% as-is, without warranty, and probably unwarranted!)


It’s an open-source Nodejs module which can be used from the command line, or as a dependency in your Nodejs application. It can process either a single string of LookML, or a whole directory of files, and outputs the results into an easy-to-navigate JSON-compatible object.


Here’s what it looks like on the command line:

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C

Cool! Thanks for doing this. We may not need it as much as we did previously, now that branches can be named (along with a couple other 5.x features), but I’m glad to know there’s a way to do our workarounds if we need to.

C

Any idea what it would take to round trip something through this? E.g., we want to change all the model names in a set of files; so we want to read, find those, then write out a new .lkml that gets them right.

fabio
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@cobbr2 I’ve made a couple of JSON object -> LookML generators for specific use cases before, and I think the approach should be generalizable. I just use a templating language (of which there are dozens, I like DoT).


Here are some in-browser implementations to give you an idea of what I mean:

https://fabio-looker.github.io/ojof-builder/

https://fabio-looker.github.io/eav-builder/


I’ve started one parse->transform->generate tool in Node too, but haven’t finished it yet.


If all you’d like to do is change something highly-localized like explore names, maybe a simple regex search&replace would be sufficient?

Ryan_Tuck
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this is awesome!


i’ve been looking for more CLI stuff for editing lookml, as our main project has grown so large that editing lookml in-browser is an awful experience.


specifically, i’m interested in using this to be able to parse our lookml dimensions for a known set of acronyms to ensure we’re including labels in those dimensions so they display properly.

fabio
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I just published an update to the package that improves the output a little bit (details on the npm page)

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