USING: vocabs vocabs.loader.private help.markup help.syntax words strings io ; IN: vocabs.loader ARTICLE: "add-vocab-roots" "Working with code outside of the Factor source tree" "You can work with code outside of the Factor source tree by adding additional directories to the list of vocabulary roots." $nl "There are three ways of doing this." $nl "The first way is to use an environment variable. Factor looks at the " { $snippet "FACTOR_ROOTS" } " environment variable for a list of " { $snippet ":" } "-separated paths (on Unix) or a list of " { $snippet ";" } "-separated paths (on Windows)." $nl "The second way is to create a configuration file. You can list additional vocabulary roots in a file that Factor reads at startup:" { $subsection "factor-roots" } "Finally, you can add vocabulary roots dynamically using a word:" { $subsection add-vocab-root } ; ARTICLE: "vocabs.roots" "Vocabulary roots" "The vocabulary loader searches for it in one of the root directories:" { $subsection vocab-roots } "The default set of roots includes the following directories in the Factor source directory:" { $list { { $snippet "core" } " - essential system vocabularies such as " { $vocab-link "parser" } " and " { $vocab-link "sequences" } ". The vocabularies in this root constitute the boot image; see " { $link "bootstrap.image" } "." } { { $snippet "basis" } " - useful libraries and tools, such as " { $vocab-link "compiler" } ", " { $vocab-link "ui" } ", " { $vocab-link "calendar" } ", and so on." } { { $snippet "extra" } " - additional contributed libraries." } { { $snippet "work" } " - a root for vocabularies which are not intended to be contributed back to Factor." } } "You can store your own vocabularies in the " { $snippet "work" } " directory." { $subsection "add-vocab-roots" } ; ARTICLE: "vocabs.loader" "Vocabulary loader" "The vocabulary loader is defined in the " { $vocab-link "vocabs.loader" } " vocabulary." $nl "Vocabularies are searched for in vocabulary roots." { $subsection "vocabs.roots" } "Vocabulary names map directly to source files. A vocabulary named " { $snippet "foo.bar" } " must be defined in a " { $snippet "bar" } " directory nested inside a " { $snippet "foo" } " directory of a vocabulary root. Any level of vocabulary nesting is permitted." $nl "The vocabulary directory - " { $snippet "bar" } " in our example - contains a source file:" { $list { { $snippet "foo/bar/bar.factor" } " - the source file, must define words in the " { $snippet "foo.bar" } " vocabulary with an " { $snippet "IN: foo.bar" } " form" } } "Two other Factor source files, storing documentation and tests, respectively, are optional:" { $list { { $snippet "foo/bar/bar-docs.factor" } " - documentation, see " { $link "writing-help" } } { { $snippet "foo/bar/bar-tests.factor" } " - unit tests, see " { $link "tools.test" } } } "Finally, three text files can contain meta-data:" { $list { { $snippet "foo/bar/authors.txt" } " - a series of lines, with one author name per line. These are listed under " { $link "vocab-authors" } } { { $snippet "foo/bar/summary.txt" } " - a one-line description" } { { $snippet "foo/bar/tags.txt" } " - a whitespace-separated list of tags which classify the vocabulary. Consult " { $link "vocab-tags" } " for a list of existing tags you can re-use" } } "While " { $link POSTPONE: USE: } " and " { $link POSTPONE: USING: } " load vocabularies which have not been loaded before adding them to the search path, it is also possible to load a vocabulary without adding it to the search path:" { $subsection require } "Forcing a reload of a vocabulary, even if it has already been loaded:" { $subsection reload } "Application vocabularies can define a main entry point, giving the user a convenient way to run the application:" { $subsection POSTPONE: MAIN: } { $subsection run } { $subsection runnable-vocab } { $see-also "vocabularies" "parser-files" "source-files" } ; ABOUT: "vocabs.loader" HELP: load-vocab { $values { "name" "a string" } { "vocab" "a hashtable or " { $link f } } } { $description "Outputs a named vocabulary. If the vocabulary does not exist, throws a restartable " { $link no-vocab } " error. If the user invokes the restart, this word outputs " { $link f } "." } { $error-description "Thrown by " { $link POSTPONE: USE: } " and " { $link POSTPONE: USING: } " when a given vocabulary does not exist. Vocabularies must be created by " { $link POSTPONE: IN: } " before being used." } ; HELP: vocab-main { $values { "vocab-spec" "a vocabulary specifier" } { "main" word } } { $description "Outputs the main entry point for a vocabulary. The entry point can be executed with " { $link run } " and set with " { $link POSTPONE: MAIN: } "." } ; HELP: vocab-roots { $var-description "A sequence of pathname strings to search for vocabularies." } ; HELP: add-vocab-root { $values { "root" "a pathname string" } } { $description "Adds a directory pathname to the list of vocabulary roots." } { $see-also "factor-roots" } ; HELP: find-vocab-root { $values { "vocab" "a vocabulary specifier" } { "path/f" "a pathname string" } } { $description "Searches for a vocabulary in the vocabulary roots." } ; HELP: no-vocab { $values { "name" "a vocabulary name" } } { $description "Throws a " { $link no-vocab } "." } { $error-description "Thrown when a " { $link POSTPONE: USE: } " or " { $link POSTPONE: USING: } " form refers to a non-existent vocabulary." } ; HELP: load-help? { $var-description "If set to a true value, documentation will be automatically loaded when vocabularies are loaded. This variable is usually on, except when Factor has been bootstrapped without the help system." } ; HELP: load-source { $values { "vocab" "a vocabulary specifier" } } { $description "Loads a vocabulary's source code." } ; HELP: load-docs { $values { "vocab" "a vocabulary specifier" } } { $description "If " { $link load-help? } " is on, loads a vocabulary's documentation." } ; HELP: reload { $values { "name" "a vocabulary name" } } { $description "Loads it's source code and documentation." } { $errors "Throws a " { $link no-vocab } " error if the vocabulary does not exist on disk." } ; HELP: require { $values { "vocab" "a vocabulary specifier" } } { $description "Loads a vocabulary if it has not already been loaded." } { $notes "To unconditionally reload a vocabulary, use " { $link reload } ". To reload changed source files only, use the words in " { $link "vocabs.refresh" } "." } ; HELP: run { $values { "vocab" "a vocabulary specifier" } } { $description "Runs a vocabulary's main entry point. The main entry point is set with the " { $link POSTPONE: MAIN: } " parsing word." } ; HELP: vocab-source-path { $values { "vocab" "a vocabulary specifier" } { "path/f" "a pathname string or " { $link f } } } { $description "Outputs a pathname where source code for " { $snippet "vocab" } " might be found. Outputs " { $link f } " if the vocabulary does not have a directory on disk." } ; HELP: vocab-docs-path { $values { "vocab" "a vocabulary specifier" } { "path/f" "a pathname string or " { $link f } } } { $description "Outputs a pathname where the documentation for " { $snippet "vocab" } " might be found. Outputs " { $link f } " if the vocabulary does not have a directory on disk." } ;