Rust Analyzer

• rust_analyzer_aspect
• rust_analyzer_toolchain

Overview

For non-Cargo projects, rust-analyzer depends on a rust-project.json file at the root of the project that describes its structure. The rust_analyzer rule facilitates generating such a file.

Setup

First, ensure rules_rust is setup in your workspace. By default, rust_register_toolchains will ensure a rust_analyzer_toolchain is registered within the WORKSPACE.

Next, load the dependencies for the rust-project.json generator tool:

load("@rules_rust//tools/rust_analyzer:deps.bzl", "rust_analyzer_dependencies")

rust_analyzer_dependencies()

Finally, run bazel run @rules_rust//tools/rust_analyzer:gen_rust_project whenever dependencies change to regenerate the rust-project.json file. It should be added to .gitignore because it is effectively a build artifact. Once the rust-project.json has been generated in the project root, rust-analyzer can pick it up upon restart.

For users who do not use rust_register_toolchains to register toolchains, the following can be added to their WORKSPACE to register a rust_analyzer_toolchain. Please make sure the Rust version used in this toolchain matches the version used by the currently registered toolchain or the sources/documentation will not match what's being compiled with and can lead to confusing results.

load("@rules_rust//rust:repositories.bzl", "rust_analyzer_toolchain_repository")

register_toolchains(rust_analyzer_toolchain_repository(
    name = "rust_analyzer_toolchain",
    # This should match the currently registered toolchain.
    version = "1.63.0",
))

VSCode

To set this up using VSCode, users should first install the rust_analyzer plugin. With that in place, the following task can be added to the .vscode/tasks.json file of the workspace to ensure a rust-project.json file is created and up to date when the editor is opened.

{
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "tasks": [
        {
            "label": "Generate rust-project.json",
            "command": "bazel",
            "args": [
                "run",
                "//tools/rust_analyzer:gen_rust_project"
            ],
            "options": {
                "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}"
            },
            "group": "build",
            "problemMatcher": [],
            "presentation": {
                "reveal": "never",
                "panel": "dedicated",
            },
            "runOptions": {
                "runOn": "folderOpen"
            }
        },
    ]
}

Alternative vscode option (prototype)

Add the following to your bazelrc:

build --@rules_rust//:rustc_output_diagnostics=true --output_groups=+rust_lib_rustc_output,+rust_metadata_rustc_output

Then you can use a prototype rust-analyzer plugin that automatically collects the outputs whenever you recompile.

rust_analyzer_toolchain

rust_analyzer_toolchain(name, proc_macro_srv, rustc, rustc_srcs)

A toolchain for rust-analyzer.

ATTRIBUTES

rust_analyzer_aspect

rust_analyzer_aspect(name)

Annotates rust rules with RustAnalyzerInfo later used to build a rust-project.json

ASPECT ATTRIBUTES

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