API for enumerating the library functions ?

[jcelerier]

Heya!
I'm working in a small GUI integrated in ossia so that people can be enabled to create Faust components through a GUI a bit like @Fr0stbyteR did with the web version (but integrated with Qt, my week-end project is to try the new https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qcanvaspainter.html ) ; it's very basic but I really want people to have a way to make DSP that way for accessibility as the coding way only caters to a very small fraction of ossia users, sadly :)
And I want to have a single visual "platform" for all the various random DSLs integrated in ossia - Faust, but also GLSL, YSFX, QML, ExprTK, jq, etc.

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I am wondering if there is currently a good API in the C++ codebase to enumerate the functions, etc. provided through the faust libraries ? Or, if there is not, a way to parse the .lib files ?

[jcelerier]

and for sure I want to be able to retrieve this information from any .lib, for instance ossia ships https://github.com/alainbonardi/abclib which has its own .lib

[sletz]

For MCP faustbrowser-mcp and faustforge projects, we have designed AI generated Python scripts, see: https://faustlibraries.grame.fr/contributing/#faust-library-json-exports and https://faustlibraries.grame.fr/contributing/#local-documentation-query-api. Can they be used for your use-case ?

[jcelerier]

hmmmm not directly as I don't ship a python interpreter :/ but I could always try to generate them offline into .lib.json, and point people to the scripts in the documentationif they have their own libraries.

[sletz]

Yes you can use this https://github.com/grame-cncm/faustlibraries/blob/master/scripts/build_faust_doc_index.py script to generate the doc offline, and provide a C++ based JSON importer. Claude or codex will write them in seconds.

@jcelerier If you write one, please contribute to Faust code base !

[jcelerier]

sounds like a plan!