Are there any open source JSDoc parser written in Javascript?

Question

I am looking for a JSDoc parser that I can use in my project. I am looking for something where I can pass in a JSDoc comment and receive a structured description of what that comment means. Most of the tools I have seen seem to be able to transform JSDoc comments into HTML or some other format. I am looking for something that will provide the intermediate representation of a comment that can be used to feed into other tools.

Are there any tools or libraries out there that I can use?

Answer 1

The Doctrine project does exactly what I am looking for:

http://eslint.org/doctrine/demo/

Answer 2

If you need only parsing functionality and don't care about tags meaning then comment-parser may help

Answer 3

There is also a dojo project: https://github.com/wkeese/js-doc-parse

see http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2013/01/18/generating-and-viewing-custom-api-docs/

it will look like the dojo documentation ( http://dojotoolkit.org/api/ )

Answer 4

what about jsdoc itself ? - with the command line jsdoc yourfile.js -X > parsed.json . With that you have the official thing.