How to make lazy parser do its work?

Hello Max,

How are you actually requesting the PSI tree? As far as I understand, PsiManager.findFile(VirtualFile)
should give you the correct PSI tree regardless of whether the file was previously
opened.

I'm trying to compile a source file with my own
SourceGeneratingCompiler, but must know some details to create output
filename.

My PsiFIle implementation provides me with all I need, but I can't
actually get a PSI tree if the file has not been opened in an editor
yet. Thus, I see empty PSI tree at the compile moment.

It works fine if the file had been opened in editor and parsed. But if
it hadn't, or it had, but PSI cache had expired I get empty PSI when
compiling.

I've found a solution:

ASTNode node = flexPsiFile.getNode();

node.getPsi().getChildren();

It works, but seems a bit odd.
Is there a proper way to make parser actually parse the PsiFile if it
was not parsed before?

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Dmitry Jemerov
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Unfortunately, that's the way I do.
PsiFile psiFile = PsiManager.getInstance(module.getProject()).findFile(file) to be correct.
You can see the source code here: http://code.google.com/p/idea-jflex/source/browse/trunk/src/org/intellij/lang/jflex/compiler/JFlexSourceGeneratingCompiler.java#134