fix: support automatic creation of cspell-tools.config.yaml

packages/cspell-tools/package.json

@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@
     "cspell-trie-lib": "workspace:*",
     "gensequence": "^5.0.2",
     "glob": "^10.3.3",
-    "hunspell-reader": "workspace:*"
+    "hunspell-reader": "workspace:*",
+    "yaml": "^2.3.1"
   },
   "engines": {
     "node": ">=16"

packages/cspell-tools/src/AppOptions.ts

@@ -7,15 +7,18 @@ export interface CompileCommonAppOptions {
     max_depth?: string;
     maxDepth?: string;
     merge?: string;
-    experimental: string[];
+    experimental?: string[];
     split?: boolean;
     sort?: boolean;
     keepRawCase?: boolean;
     trie?: boolean;
     trie3?: boolean;
     trie4?: boolean;
     trieBase?: string;
+    listFile?: string[];
     useLegacySplitter?: boolean;
+    /** Indicate that a config file should be created instead of building. */
+    init?: boolean;
 }
 export interface CompileAppOptions extends CompileCommonAppOptions {
     sort: boolean;

packages/cspell-tools/src/app.ts

@@ -44,7 +44,15 @@ function addCompileOptions(compileCommand: program.Command): program.Command {
         )
         .option('--trie3', 'Use file format trie3', false)
         .option('--trie4', 'Use file format trie4', false)
-        .option('--trie-base <number>', 'Advanced: Set the trie base number. A value between 10 and 36');
+        .option('--trie-base <number>', 'Advanced: Set the trie base number. A value between 10 and 36')
+        .option(
+            '--list-file <filename...>',
+            'Path to a file that contains the list of files to compile. A list file contains one file per line.'
+        )
+        .option(
+            '--init',
+            'Create a build command `cspell-tools.config.yaml` file based upon the options given instead of building.'
+        );
 }
 
 interface ShasumOptions {
@@ -77,7 +85,7 @@ export async function run(program: program.Command, argv: string[], flags?: Feat
 
     program.version(npmPackage.version);
 
-    addCompileOptions(program.command('compile <src...>').description('Compile words into a cspell dictionary files.'))
+    addCompileOptions(program.command('compile [src...]').description('Compile words into a cspell dictionary files.'))
         .option('--trie', 'Compile into a trie file.', false)
         .option('--no-sort', 'Do not sort the result')
         .action((src: string[], options: CompileAppOptions) => {
@@ -86,7 +94,7 @@ export async function run(program: program.Command, argv: string[], flags?: Feat
 
     addCompileOptions(
         program
-            .command('compile-trie <src...>')
+            .command('compile-trie [src...]')
             .description(
                 'Compile words lists or Hunspell dictionary into trie files used by cspell.\nAlias of `compile --trie`'
             )

packages/cspell-tools/src/compile.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+import { writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
+
+import { describe, expect, test, vi } from 'vitest';
+
+import { processCompileAction } from './compile.js';
+
+vi.mock('node:fs/promises', () => ({
+    writeFile: vi.fn().mockImplementation(() => Promise.resolve(undefined)),
+}));
+
+const mockWriteFile = vi.mocked(writeFile);
+
+vi.spyOn(console, 'log').mockImplementation(() => undefined);
+
+describe('compile', () => {
+    test('--init option', async () => {
+        const options = {
+            compress: true,
+            sort: true,
+            merge: 'public-licenses',
+            output: '.',
+            listFile: ['source-files.txt'],
+            init: true,
+        };
+        const expected = `\
+targets:
+  - name: public-licenses
+    targetDirectory: .
+    compress: true
+    format: plaintext
+    sources:
+      - listFile: source-files.txt
+    sort: true
+`;
+        await processCompileAction([], options, undefined);
+        expect(mockWriteFile).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith('cspell-tools.config.yaml', expected);
+    });
+});

packages/cspell-tools/src/compile.ts

@@ -1,31 +1,41 @@
+import { writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
+
 import { opConcatMap, pipe } from '@cspell/cspell-pipe/sync';
+import YAML from 'yaml';
 
 import type { CompileCommonAppOptions } from './AppOptions.js';
 import { compile } from './compiler/compile.js';
 import { createCompileRequest } from './compiler/createCompileRequest.js';
+import type { CompileRequest } from './config/config.js';
 import type { FeatureFlags } from './FeatureFlags/index.js';
 import { getSystemFeatureFlags, parseFlags } from './FeatureFlags/index.js';
 import { globP } from './util/globP.js';
 
 getSystemFeatureFlags().register('compound', 'Enable compound dictionary sources.');
 
+const defaultConfigFile = 'cspell-tools.config.yaml';
+
 export async function processCompileAction(
     src: string[],
     options: CompileCommonAppOptions,
     featureFlags: FeatureFlags | undefined
 ): Promise<void> {
     const ff = featureFlags || getSystemFeatureFlags();
-    parseFlags(ff, options.experimental);
+    parseFlags(ff, options.experimental || []);
     return useCompile(src, options);
 }
 
 async function useCompile(src: string[], options: CompileCommonAppOptions): Promise<void> {
     console.log(
-        'Compile:\n output: %s\n compress: %s\n files:\n  %s \n\n',
+        'Compile:\n output: %s\n compress: %s\n files:\n  %s ',
         options.output || 'default',
         options.compress ? 'true' : 'false',
         src.join('\n  ')
     );
+    if (options.listFile && options.listFile.length) {
+        console.log(' list files:\n  %s', options.listFile.join('\n  '));
+    }
+    console.log('\n\n');
 
     const globResults = await Promise.all(src.map((s) => globP(s)));
     const sources = [
@@ -35,5 +45,17 @@ async function useCompile(src: string[], options: CompileCommonAppOptions): Prom
         ),
     ];
 
-    return compile(createCompileRequest(sources, options));
+    const request = createCompileRequest(sources, options);
+    return options.init ? initConfig(request) : compile(request);
+}
+
+async function initConfig(request: CompileRequest): Promise<void> {
+    const content = YAML.stringify(request, null, 2);
+    console.log('Writing config file: %s', defaultConfigFile);
+    await writeFile(defaultConfigFile, content);
+
+    console.log(`Init complete.
+To build, use:
+  cspell-tools-cli build
+`);
 }

packages/cspell-tools/src/compiler/__snapshots__/createCompileRequest.test.ts.snap

@@ -63,3 +63,57 @@ exports[`createCompileRequest > createCompileRequest 4`] = `
   ],
 }
 `;
+
+exports[`createCompileRequest > createCompileRequest 5`] = `
+{
+  "targets": [
+    {
+      "compress": false,
+      "format": "plaintext",
+      "name": "python-sources",
+      "sources": [
+        {
+          "listFile": "python-sources.txt",
+        },
+      ],
+      "targetDirectory": ".",
+    },
+  ],
+}
+`;
+
+exports[`createCompileRequest > createCompileRequest 6`] = `
+{
+  "targets": [
+    {
+      "compress": false,
+      "format": "plaintext",
+      "name": "python-sources",
+      "sources": [
+        {
+          "listFile": "python-sources.txt",
+        },
+      ],
+      "targetDirectory": "python",
+    },
+  ],
+}
+`;
+
+exports[`createCompileRequest > createCompileRequest 7`] = `
+{
+  "targets": [
+    {
+      "compress": false,
+      "format": "plaintext",
+      "name": "python",
+      "sources": [
+        {
+          "listFile": "python-sources.txt",
+        },
+      ],
+      "targetDirectory": ".",
+    },
+  ],
+}
+`;

packages/cspell-tools/src/compiler/createCompileRequest.test.ts

@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ describe('createCompileRequest', () => {
         ${['src/words.txt']}                   | ${comp()}
         ${['src/words.txt', 'src/cities.txt']} | ${comp({ output: 'out' })}
         ${['src/words.txt', 'src/cities.txt']} | ${comp({ output: 'out', merge: 'combo' })}
+        ${[]}                                  | ${comp({ listFile: ['python-sources.txt'] })}
+        ${[]}                                  | ${comp({ listFile: ['python-sources.txt'], output: 'python' })}
+        ${[]}                                  | ${comp({ listFile: ['python-sources.txt'], merge: 'python' })}
     `('createCompileRequest', ({ source, options }) => {
         const req = createCompileRequest(source, options);
         // Make sure the test passes on Windows.

packages/cspell-tools/src/compiler/createCompileRequest.ts

@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 import * as path from 'path';
 
 import type { CompileCommonAppOptions } from '../AppOptions.js';
-import type { CompileRequest, DictionaryFormats, Target } from '../config/index.js';
+import type { CompileRequest, DictionaryFormats, DictionarySource, FileSource, Target } from '../config/index.js';
 
-export function createCompileRequest(sources: string[], options: CompileCommonAppOptions): CompileRequest {
+export function createCompileRequest(sourceFiles: string[], options: CompileCommonAppOptions): CompileRequest {
     const { max_depth, maxDepth, experimental = [], split, keepRawCase, useLegacySplitter } = options;
 
+    const sources: DictionarySource[] = [...sourceFiles, ...(options.listFile || []).map((listFile) => ({ listFile }))];
+
     const targets = calcTargets(sources, options);
     const generateNonStrict = experimental.includes('compound') || undefined;
 
@@ -23,7 +25,7 @@ export function createCompileRequest(sources: string[], options: CompileCommonAp
 
     return req;
 }
-function calcTargets(sources: string[], options: CompileCommonAppOptions): Target[] {
+function calcTargets(sources: DictionarySource[], options: CompileCommonAppOptions): Target[] {
     const { merge, output = '.' } = options;
 
     const format = calcFormat(options);
@@ -42,7 +44,7 @@ function calcTargets(sources: string[], options: CompileCommonAppOptions): Targe
     }
 
     const targets: Target[] = sources.map((source) => {
-        const name = toTargetName(path.basename(source));
+        const name = toTargetName(baseNameOfSource(source));
         const target: Target = {
             name,
             targetDirectory: output,
@@ -69,3 +71,11 @@ function parseNumber(s: string | undefined): number | undefined {
     const n = parseInt(s ?? '');
     return isNaN(n) ? undefined : n;
 }
+
+function baseNameOfSource(source: DictionarySource): string {
+    return typeof source === 'string' ? source : isFileSource(source) ? source.filename : source.listFile;
+}
+
+function isFileSource(source: DictionarySource): source is FileSource {
+    return typeof source !== 'string' && (<FileSource>source).filename !== undefined;
+}