How can i generate Lexicon schemas and APIs using go ?

[ymolists]

Hello everyone,

First of all, thank you immensely for your support and for introducing me to this tool.

I'm interested in using Go both for generating schemas and for validation purposes. I came across the Command-line tool for generating Lexicon schemas and APIs, but it appears to be TypeScript-based from what I can see.

Does a similar tool or library exist that allows me to generate validation code using Go, with both the generator and the generated code being in Go? If such a tool exists, could someone point me in the right direction?

Best regards.

[bnewbold]

The indigo repo has some re-usable tools. There are some basic docs in HACKING: https://github.com/bluesky-social/indigo/blob/main/HACKING.md#lexicon-and-cbor-code-generation

Though they may be out of date. Basically you would put your Lexicon JSON files in a directory somewhere; invoke lexgen to output generated code; optionally run cborgen if you have record types that need serialization; and then work with the generated structs and methods.

As a warning, lexgen doesn't support some Lexicon corner-cases.