goboot Annotations

Syntax highlighting and snippets for goboot annotations in Go doc comments.

goboot is a compile-time framework whose annotations live in ordinary Go comments — // @Service, // @GetMapping(path="/x"), // @Query(`SELECT ...`). Plain Go tooling renders those as flat comment text; this extension colors them so the annotation name, arguments, strings, numbers, and enums stand out.

Features

• Highlighting — an injection grammar that lights up @Annotation(args) inside // and /* */ comments in Go files. Names, argument keys, =, strings/raw strings, numbers, booleans, null, arrays/objects, and dotted enums (TimeUnit.MINUTES) each get their own scope.
• Snippets — type @Service, @GetMapping, @Repository, @Query, @Scheduled, @ControllerAdvice, … in a Go file for a ready-to-fill annotation.

Install

From a packaged VSIX:

cd editors/vscode
npx @vscode/vsce package        # produces goboot-annotations-<version>.vsix
code --install-extension goboot-annotations-*.vsix

Then open any Go file with goboot annotations. No settings required — the grammar is injected into source.go automatically.

How it works

The grammar (syntaxes/goboot.tmLanguage.json) has an injectionSelector of L:comment.line.double-slash.go, L:comment.block.go, so it applies only inside Go comments and layers on top of the base Go grammar. It matches @ + a PascalCase name and, when present, the parenthesized argument list.

Note: an annotation name mentioned in prose (e.g. "the @Transactional method") is highlighted too — which mirrors how goboot's own parser treats any comment-line-leading @Name as an annotation.

Scopes (for theme authors)

Development

cd editors/vscode/test && npm install     # vscode-textmate + vscode-oniguruma
node tokenize.js                           # grammar tokenization tests

Licensed under Apache-2.0 (same as goboot).