Rust Analyzer

• rust_analyzer_aspect

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, add the following to the WORKSPACE file:

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

rust_analyzer_deps()

Next, add the following lines to the .bazelrc file of your workspace:

build --repo_env=RULES_RUST_TOOLCHAIN_INCLUDE_RUSTC_SRCS=true

This will ensure rust source code is available to rust-analyzer. Users can also set include_rustc_srcs = True on any rust_repository or rust_repositories calls in the workspace but the environment variable has higher priority and can override the attribute.

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.

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", "@rules_rust//tools/rust_analyzer:gen_rust_project"],
            "options": {
                "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}"
            },
            "group": "build",
            "problemMatcher": [],
            "presentation": {
                "reveal": "never",
                "panel": "dedicated",
            },
            "runOptions": {
                "runOn": "folderOpen"
            }
        },
    ]
}

rust_analyzer_aspect

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

ASPECT ATTRIBUTES

Name	Type
deps	String
proc_macro_deps	String
crate	String
actual	String

ATTRIBUTES

Name	Description	Type	Mandatory	Default
name	A unique name for this target.	Name	required