CodeWalker Module

Parse directories or formatted strings into file maps with automatic ignore pattern support.

Features

📂 Walk directories recursively and build file maps
🚫 Respect .gitignore and .heroignore ignore patterns with directory scoping
📝 Parse custom ===FILE:name=== format into file maps
📦 Export/write file maps to disk
🛡️ Robust, defensive parsing (handles spaces, variable = length, case-insensitive)

Quick Start

From Directory Path

import incubaid.herolib.lib.ai.codewalker

mut cw := codewalker.new()
mut fm := cw.filemap_get(path: '/path/to/project')!

// Iterate files
for path, content in fm.content {
    println('${path}: ${content.len} bytes')
}

From Formatted String

content_str := '
===FILE:main.v===
fn main() {
    println("Hello!")
}
===FILE:utils/helper.v===
pub fn help() {}
===END===
'

mut cw := codewalker.new()
mut fm := cw.parse(content_str)!

println(fm.get('main.v')!)

FileMap Operations

// Get file content
content := fm.get('path/to/file.txt')!

// Set/modify file
fm.set('new/file.txt', 'content here')

// Find files by prefix
files := fm.find('src/')

// Export to directory
fm.export('/output/dir')!

// Write updates to directory
fm.write('/project/dir')!

// Convert back to formatted string
text := fm.content()

File Format

Full Files

===FILE:path/to/file.txt===
File content here
Can span multiple lines
===END===

Partial Content (for future morphing)

===FILECHANGE:src/models.v===
struct User {
    id int
}
===END===

Both Together

===FILE:main.v===
fn main() {}
===FILECHANGE:utils.v===
fn helper() {}
===END===

Parsing Robustness

Parser handles variations:

===FILE:name.txt===     // Standard
= = FILE : name.txt = = // Extra spaces
===file:name.txt===     // Lowercase
==FILE:name.txt==       // Different = count

Error Handling

Errors are collected in FileMap.errors:

mut fm := cw.filemap_get(content: str)!

if fm.errors.len > 0 {
    for err in fm.errors {
        println('Line ${err.linenr}: ${err.message}')
    }
}

Ignore Patterns

Respects .gitignore and .heroignore in any directory
Patterns are scoped to the directory that contains them
Default patterns include .git/, node_modules/, *.pyc, etc.
Use / suffix for directory patterns: dist/
Use * for wildcards: *.log
Lines starting with # are comments

Example .heroignore:

build/
*.tmp
.env
__pycache__/