SQLFluff Development

It is recommended that the following is read in conjunction with exploring the codebase. dialect_ansi.py in particular is helpful to understand the recursive structure of segments and grammars. Some more detail is also given on our Wiki including a Contributing Dialect Changes guide.

• Architecture
  • Stage 1, the templater
  • Stage 2, the lexer
  • Stage 3, the parser
  • Stage 4, the linter
• Contributing Dialect Changes
• Developing Rules
  • Running Tests
  • Traversal Options
  • Performance-related Options
  • Base Rules
  • Functional API
• Reflow Internals
  • ReflowSequence
  • ReflowPoint
  • ReflowBlock
• Developing Plugins
  • Creating a plugin
  • Giving feedback