Is it possible to customize the flex compiler generated as3 code using the compiler API? I would like to customize how the new State syntax code-generation works, and how metadata tags (Bindable and custom ones) are handled.

I’d love to know because it seems impossible.

Thanks,
Lance

This is really nice, but how official will this hellfire rpc compiler prototype become? Will it go open source? Will it be a product?

Hi Rodrigo, For parsing and analyzing MXML, it’s a bit more complicated than recursive decent but it’s accurate for AS3. When the compiler encounters an error, it logs the error to a Logger provided by the caller. It then keeps compiling other sources until it can’t go further or it encounters too many errors (100 is the max).

Hi Erik, It would be nice to expand the compiler API to allow users to specify transcoders, compilers and extensions. I would say that it’s not difficult for me to do ‘cos I know the compiler code quite well. But you need to run the API addition proposal by Adobe. Extensions, in my opinion, are not difficult to write – you just need to study and mimic what the other existing extensions do.

Hi Tech, yeah, I’ve just made it available in my latest postt. Please give it a try!

I am talking a bit with velo at the flex-mojos project, because I am thinking about providing rpc, out-of-maven-process-compilation, to the current maven plugins, or maybe just flex-mojos. This to avoid the penalty of warming up the flex compiler each time I type “mvn” at the command-line.

To do this, I could really use the code you write about in your prototype. Would that maybe be possible?

Tech Per

I am wondering:

How hard would it be to add a method to the interface that would allow us to add extensions to the AS compiler?

and then

How hard would it then be for us to write such an extension?

Greetz Erik

This blog is very useful to clarify developers doubts about the flex compiler, congratulations!

I am a college student and I will present a seminar about the flex compiler (actually I will talk about AS3 language and its compiler).

There are a few things that I am still looking for. So if you could send me an e-mail or even answer here I will appreciate it. Note this do not need to be a very detailed explanation, just a notion how it work.

I tried to found this on the source of compiler, but only analyzing the source it is not that easy to reach this information.

That is it:
* What strategies flex compiler does the syntactic analyzer uses? (e.g. “Recursive descent parsing” or a hybrid approach or other).
* What strategies flex compiler uses to handle the errors? (e.g. “panic mode” or a hybrid approach or other).

Thank you!
Again: congratulations for you initiative.

This would solve that problem and make a huge increase in productivity.

ML