Integrating ts-to-python into webtypy

[simonegiacomelli]

Hey @hoodmane,

referencing issue webtypy/13 I was wondering what you think of the following idea.

• Export ConversionResult in json; so we have the ts declaration files IR
• Import the ConversionResult.json file in webtypy
• Perform the processing of ConversionResult.json and webidl(s) in Python to get the best of both worlds

I landed at this sketch because I didn't find any suitable TypeScript parser 'natively' available in Python.

I will send you a pull request, just to give you a better idea of what I'm talking about.
I didn't look into the ts-to-python sources too much; maybe the export could be done in a different way or in a better place?

[hoodmane]

Thanks for looking into this @simonegiacomelli !

[hoodmane]

I wonder if it would be reasonable to rewrite webtypy into typescript. That seems like the other option which avoids tricky cross language integration. A third option would be to use Pyodide to run the existing python part of the code base.

For implementing it in the way you're currently thinking I'd suggest looking at what I do in pyodide/sphinx-js-fork for cross language communication. I initially used Pydantic but ultimately found it a bit easier with cattrs.

[simonegiacomelli]

Hey, thanks for the quick response!

I'm more comfortable with Python than TypeScript... I'm investing a lot into Python.

I looked briefly into https://github.com/hoodmane/sphinx-js but I don't really know where to start. Are you loading the json in Python and manipulating it? Could you give me some pointers where to look?