Linting, Code Completion & Intellisense

The built-in editor in Engine supports automatic checking of stylistic and programmatic errors through linting.

Moreover, it also supports code completion of Engine specific functionality (methods, classes etc. of the flow_api).

Linting

Concept

When using the Engine editor, your scripts gets checked as you write it. You get live updates anytime the linter spots something:

• the part in the script gets underlined,
• the location of the lines with linting errors is marked in the scrollbar,
• when you hover over an underlined segment, you get detailed information about the error.

Linting shows the issues with the script

Configuration

If you want to disable specific (or all) linting checks, you can do so with adding inline comments to your script.

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You can get error codes of the issues from from the error messages that get displayed with mouse hover.

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To disable multiple specific checks, you can use multiple error codes separated by commas.

Here's how to disable linting checks.

Disabling checks for an entire flow script

To disable all checks for your flow script, add the following to the first line in the script: # type: ignore

To disable specific checks for your flow script, add the following to any line (where <code> stands for the specific error codes): # pyright: <code>=false

Disabling checks for a single line

To disable all checks for a line, add the following to the end of that line: # pyright: ignore

To disable specific checks for a line, add the following to the end of that line (where <code> stands for the specific error codes): # pyright: ignore [<code>]

Code completion

Concept

You might be already used to code completion in your favourite offline editor. Code completion provides context for objects without the need for consulting documentation.

This is particularly useful for:

• autocompletion,
• seeing available methods for a specific class,
• seeing the arguments of a method or function.

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Since the flow_api isn't publicly available, the code completion only works in the built-in editor.

Showing the available methods for the Execution.

The autocomplete feature supplies the argument names.

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