JSqlParser VS sqlparse

I wonder if this is a topical thread to check if anyone is aware of a Java based solution to parse a CREATE VIEW statement to get a mapping between the view columns and the corresponding source table columns. I checked out jsqlparser[0] and it does produce an AST which can be parsed using the visitor-pattern[1] but was wondering if there is a more "out-of-the-box" solution. Due to various reasons, querying the database information schema is not an option I can pursue.

[0]: https://github.com/JSQLParser/JSqlParser

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visitor_pattern

JSQLParser can parse multiple SQL dialects like MySQL, Postgres and Oracle. The grammar can be modified to support other SQL dialects.

Interesting coincidence - I'm working on a parser that parses the AST produced by JSqlParser[0] for a create view statement to generate mapping between the columns of a view and the columns of its underlying table. It is an interesting example of having to use the visitor pattern[1].

[0]: https://github.com/JSQLParser/JSqlParser

Suggest checking out the sqlparse library for a way to do the different flavours without needing to address each case directly: https://github.com/andialbrecht/sqlparse

Gotcha, since we haven't actually written all of this yet I don't have any useful code snippets to share but we've discussed tackling the problem internally using something like sqlparse. You'd need to identify the relevant sql chunks, parse them for table dependency information and then create the relevant entities in whichever data lineage tool you were using.

sqlparse – A non-validating SQL parser module for Python

Regular expressions is a popular approach to extract information from SQL statements. However, regular expressions quickly become too complex to handle common features like WITH, sub-queries, windows clauses, aliases and quotes. sqlparse is a popular python package that uses regular expressions to parse SQL.

This one is not bad: https://github.com/andialbrecht/sqlparse.

We used this repo for this: https://github.com/andialbrecht/sqlparse. I may have miscommunicated. We didn't write the parser from scratch, we created a way for the parser to detect downstream and upstream dependencies of the resource.