Unit Converter from Grafana to Guance

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In Grafana and Guance Dashboard, there are many units to represent to data semantic.

This package is a converter to convert the unit string from Grafana to Guance.

The implementation steps are:

1. Get the full list of units from Grafana.
2. Extract all the units from source code of Guance Cloud Console by tree-sitter query.
3. Compare the units from Grafana and Guance, and find the mapping relationship.

Extract units from Guance

The Guance Cloud Console is written in React, and the source code is compiled to JavaScript.

The tree-sitter is a parser generator tool and incremental parsing library. It can extract any information from source code and its CST (Concrete Syntax Tree).

The query as follows:

; extract the unit formats
(program
    (expression_statement
        (assignment_expression left:
            (identifier) right:
            (object [
                (pair key: (string) @id)
                (pair key: (property_identifier) @id)
            ])
        )
    )
)

The steps to extract the units from Guance:

1. Clone the frontend source code of Guance Cloud Console.
2. cd lib/convert-units/lib/definitions folder.
3. Run the script node main.js.