CLI Usage

npm install -g lookml-parser
git clone <your-lookml-repo>
cd <your-lookml-repo>
lookml-parser --input="*.{view,model}.lkml" --whitespace=2 >> output.json

CLI / REPL

lookml-parser --interactive

Node API

const lookmlParser = require('lookml-parser')

lookmlParser.parse("view: foo{}")
lookmlParser.parseFiles({
		source:  "*.{view,model,explore}.lkml",
		globOptions: {},
		readFileOptions: {encoding:"utf-8"},
		readFileConcurrency: 4,
		console: console
	})

Output & Features

At the moment, parseFiles outputs a collection of files, each with their own parsed contents, as well as models resulting from following includes from model files.

Conditional Comments

If you want to leverage LookML syntax to embed arbitrary other markup/objects that would be rejected by the native IDE, the CLI and parseFiles function now allow this with conditional comments:

view: foo {
	# PARSE-ME!
	# owner: "Fabio"
	# version: {major:1 minor:4 date:"2018-01-01"}
	dimension: bar {}
}

> lookml-parser --conditional-comment="PARSE-ME!"

Changelog

• v2
  • Breaking change: removed the _name property on objects.
  • Added a _type property on all objects
  • As a replacement for _name, added multiple _<type>: <name> properties (e.g. { ... , "_type": "join", "_join": "users", "_explore": "orders"} )
  • Added a _n property which gives the lexical position of the object in the original text
• v2.2
  • The return now contains model objects which have recursively included other referenced files' contents
  • In interactive mode, the output is slightly more compact
• v3.0
  • Breaking change: yesno fields are now mapped to true/false
  • Added conditional comment feature. The CLI flag is --conditional-comment=FOO or -c FOO