Grammar does not parse types containing types

[Tostis]

Prerequisites

• This bug is in SonarDelphi, not SonarQube or my Delphi code.
• This bug has not already been reported.

SonarDelphi version

1.21

Delphi version

13

SonarQube version

No response

Issue description

Grammar cannot parse types delclared inside types.

type TMyOuterClass=  class

	type TMyInnerClass= class
	end;
end;

Steps to reproduce

Try to parse this unit.

unit MyUnit;

interface

type TMyOuterClass=  class

	type TMyInnerClass= class
	end;
end;


implementation

end.

Minimal Delphi code exhibiting the issue

No response

[fourls]

Hi @Tostis, thanks for reporting this issue. I can't reproduce a parsing error with the provided snippet, and SonarDelphi definitely can parse nested types (among many other much more complex Delphi constructions). Would you be able to supply the scan log, as well as an example that's closer to your original file?

One thing that can often cause problems like this when scanning a codebase for the first time- you may have to tell SonarDelphi what conditional directives to define - by default it tries to figure out what you want from any dproj files, but of course in many cases it can't determine your intent. If there is a lot of IFDEF'd code around your original file, could you try playing around with sonar.delphi.conditionalDefines / sonar.delphi.conditionalUndefines and seeing if that helps? See Configuration for more info on that.