What is the recommended way to do post processing on the AST?

Think I have found the answer to my question here:

https://www.actiprosoftware.com/docs/controls/wpf/syntaxeditor/text-parsing/parsing/parse-requests-and-dispatchers

Hi Josh,

Yes indeed.  Please make sure you configure an ambient parse request dispatcher in your app startup as described in this documentation topic.  If you do that, then all IParser.Parse methods should be called from a worker thread, and never on the main thread.

Is there a way to initiate a synchronous manual parse on the current background parse?

Also, if I try to create a parser and call the Parse method and passing in a ParseRequest, it seems like it might be working, but I have code that relies on the Snapshot property of the IParseRequest.  How can I get that to be filled in?

Thanks!

Hi Josh,

Can you clarify what you are trying to do with some more detail?  You mentioned calling a synchronous parse from the current background parse operation. 

Do you mean from within IParser.Parse method itself, in which case it would be synchronous, already on the same worker thread?

Or do you mean that you want to run the parser synchronously from other external code outside of the Parse method?  For that kind of thing, you could use the extension method described in the last section of this documentation topic.

Hello!

I'm looking to initiate another IParser.Parse on a different set of logic WITHIN the existing background thread synchronously.

This seems to be the same question as over in this thread, so we can keep the related discussion in that thread.