Sonar and Erlang phase 2, version 0.x

I know, I know... the time is running so fast, but on the planet of endless rain it is really hard to measure the passage of time...

So when I have finished the first version of the plugin, and I sent it back to the troop who is responsible for Sonar, I realized they would not accept it... Meanwhile they created a tool called SSLR (SonarSource Language Recognizer), which is a framework to create lexers, parsers, and AST visitors for any language... So I have decided to create a new version, where I parse the source codes and build up an AST tree...

Chapter 1:
During that phase, it was around Sept., Oct., it took me a while to create the parser, because I am not really experienced in erlang, but with the tool you can easily follow TDD, so basically your job is:

1. create a grammar implementation what you think is good
2. find some erlang code (github droid is your friend)
3. try to parse it
4. fix your grammar
5. repeat step 3.-4. until you can parse it
6. refactor your grammar, to make it more beautiful, better
7. check the file again
8. continue with other file

So it is really not difficult. After a month I was able to create the first version, after that I had to create some rules, based on the needs of the developers in the team, also integrate it with sonar through a new sonar plugin, but in general (not counting a few hard days) it was straightforward.

So after I have done everything, I sent them an email: Hey guys, here is a language plugin with sslr for erlang, what do you think?

And I was right, they accepted it (after a few fixes).... https://github.com/SonarCommunity/sonar-erlang

And it has the version 0.x, you can get it from the upgrade center.

Chapter 2:

I forget to mention, but the previous thing was a lexerful parser, and during my implementation the troop created a better and faster, and more shiny way to parse source files, and it is a lexerless way... so a few months ago, I migrated all I did before to the new way, including the unit tests... and it is also released... 

Chapter 3:

so whats next? creating more checks for sure, and there is some dirty things in the grammar what I want to remove/refactor, but I did not have time yet. And it is not that easy. 

And there is a bug in the library sensor, so not all kind of urls are recognized, parsed, which pollutes the sonar db with useless junks in the dependencies...

And I should advertise it to other Regiments/Battalions/Platoons/whatever which use erlang, to gather more feedback, but it also means more responsibility...

That's all folks...