Is there a way to directly access the built-in types of starlark language in Bazel?

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For example, is there a way to call the constructor of File class to create an instance of it?

ahumesky · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-09T02:43:14.527

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Generally it just depends on the thing you want. Some things like File you have to go through an API, for example to create a file object in a rule function, you would use ctx.actions.declare_file(filename)

See this for examples: https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/skylark/lib/actions.html#declare_file

Other things you can create directly, like depset has depset(). See global functions here https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/skylark/lib/skylark-overview.html

edited Jun 09 '20 at 02:43

answered Jun 08 '20 at 21:28

ahumesky

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I guess I made a bad example of my question. Can I create an File object? – xiay Jun 08 '20 at 23:16
gotcha, I edited my answer to reflect your edits to the question – ahumesky Jun 09 '20 at 02:43

Is there a way to directly access the built-in types of starlark language in Bazel?

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