AL Language Parser

This directory contains the parser as an independent Node.js package. This parser is the core component of @vjeko.com/al-parser-* group of packages. All other components depend on it, and use it to provide the parsing functionality.

Depending on your scenario, this component may or may not be the right choice for you to use. Use this component if:

• You are running the parser from the browser and you cannot benefit from Node.js multi-threading capability
• You will only ever parse one document at a time, and parsing performance is already good enough

If you both need a high-performance parser and your project runs on Node.js runtime, then take use the @vjeko.com/al-parser-node package that provides multi-threading capability, and can often provide far better performance.

As a benchmark, you can expect ~1ms per object with single-threaded parser (this component) and ~0.15ms per object with multi-threaded parser.

AL Language Support

Supports version of AL up to BC version 25.x.

Installation

To install the parser, run:

npm install @vjeko.com/al-parser

This will install the parser as a dependency to your project.

Usage

Using the parser is simple:

import { Parser } from "@vjeko.com/al-parser";

let parser = new Parser("codeunit 1 TestParser {}");
let objects = parser.parseObjects();