Question

When working on .js files in xcode, the method browser works and list traditional functions. Such as:

function OBj (e){
        for (var i in e) {
            enyo.log("element ", i, " is ", e[i])
        }
    };

or…

var OBj = function(e) {
        for (var i in e) {
            enyo.log("element ", i, " is ", e[i])
        }
    };

But what about other patterns?…. such as:

Obj.method({

    init: function() {},
    data: function() {},

})

This is where xcode falls short for me. So in this question/answer post, I present a shell script which I wrote in order to provide the type of method navigation which I needed for the javascript pattern type that I used. Utilizing the marker ??? feature in xcode, the shell script simply loops through all .js files in a specified folder, and by way of pattern matching it seeks out all methods that adheres to the pattern:

init: function() {},

It injects a commented matching marker so you would now have:

Obj.method({

//???:init
    init: function() {},
//???:data
    data: function() {},

})

Which happily shows up on xcode’s method drop down list:

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I have provided the script as the answer part to my question. Simply copy and paste into a file. Put that file inside the folder where your JS files are located. From the terminal, cd to that folder and run the shell script: ./scriptname

Golden!!!

Answer 1

#!/bin/bash
# ***WARNING: BACK UP YOUR FILES BEFORE RUNING THIS SCRIPT ON THEM

# JS function pattern
v1=': function'

# Change these to point to the paths of your own JS files
temp_file='/Users/.../Documents/.../www/.../'
jsfolder='/Users/.../Documents/.../www/.../'


# Do not change anything below unless you know what you doing,
# as it will likely break the script.   
v2="\/\/\?\?\?\:"
temploc='temp_file'
for i in "${jsfolder}"*.js
do
sed -e  's/'"${v2}"'.*//' -e 's/ *\([^: ]*\)'"${v1}"'.*/'"${v2}"'\1\
&/' $i > $temp_file$temploc
mv $temp_file$temploc $i
done