How to set quickfix list? about overseer.nvim HOT 2 CLOSED

This is good feedback; I'll have to adjust the docs to make this clearer. At the moment, setting values in the quickfix relies on having a "diagnostics" field on the result object, which you would typically set using an output parser (see the docs on parsing output). In your example, you're running the command, nothing is parsing the output, then you have two components looking for diagnostics, but that value hasn't been set. All this assumes that you want to extract certain lines as build errors, warnings, or similar.

If you instead want to dump all output into the quickfix, have a look at #4. It has a draft API for two ways to accomplish that. Feedback is welcome (encouraged, even). I have been and will be super busy for some weeks (moving and other life events), but I'll be cleaning up that API and merging it as soon as I am able.

Thanks a lot Steve! With your inspiration I managed to do what I wanted to do (which is an amazing thing to be able to do!!!!).

For posterity:

overseer.register_template({
		name = "piobuild",
		builder = function(params)
			return {
				cmd = {'pio'},
				args = {"run", "--verbose"},
				name = "piobuild",
				cwd = "",
				env = {},
				components = {
					"default",
					{"on_output_parse", parser = {
						-- Put the parser results into the 'diagnostics' field on the task result
						diagnostics = {
							-- Extract fields using lua patterns
							{
								"extract",
								"^([^%s].+):(%d+):(%d+): (.+)$",
								"filename",
								"lnum",
								"col",
								"text"
							},
						}
					}},
					"on_result_diagnostics",
					{"on_result_diagnostics_quickfix", {
						open = true
					}}
				},
				metadata = {},
			}
		end,
		desc = "Build a platformio project",
		tags = {overseer.TAG.BUILD},
		params = { },
		priority = 50,
		condition = {
			filetype = {"c", "cpp", "ino", "h", "hpp", "ini"},
			callback = function(search)
				return isdir(search.dir .. "/.pio")
			end
		},
	})

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This is good feedback; I'll have to adjust the docs to make this clearer. At the moment, setting values in the quickfix relies on having a "diagnostics" field on the result object, which you would typically set using an output parser (see the docs on parsing output). In your example, you're running the command, nothing is parsing the output, then you have two components looking for diagnostics, but that value hasn't been set. All this assumes that you want to extract certain lines as build errors, warnings, or similar.

If you instead want to dump all output into the quickfix, have a look at #4. It has a draft API for two ways to accomplish that. Feedback is welcome (encouraged, even). I have been and will be super busy for some weeks (moving and other life events), but I'll be cleaning up that API and merging it as soon as I am able.

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