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Contributing to Spotless

Pull requests are welcome, preferably against main. Feel free to develop spotless any way you like.

How Spotless works

Spotless' most basic element is the FormatterStep, which has one method that really matters: String format(String rawUnix, File file). Each step is guaranteed that its input string will contain only unix newlines, and the step's output should also contain only unix newlines. The file argument is provided only to allow path-dependent formatting (e.g. special formatting for package-info.java), but most formatters are path-independent and won't use that argument.

In order to use and combine FormatterStep, you first create a Formatter, which has the following parameters:

  • an encoding
  • a list of FormatterStep
  • a line endings policy (LineEnding.GIT_ATTRIBUTES is almost always the best choice)

Once you have an instance of Formatter, you can call boolean isClean(File), or void applyTo(File) to either check or apply formatting to a file. Spotless will then:

  • parse the raw bytes into a String according to the encoding
  • normalize its line endings to \n
  • pass the unix string to each FormatterStep one after the other
  • apply line endings according to the policy

You can also use lower-level methods like String compute(String unix, File file) if you'd like to do lower-level processing.

All FormatterStep implement Serializable, equals, and hashCode, so build systems that support up-to-date checks can easily and correctly determine if any actions need to be taken.

Spotless also provides PaddedCell, which makes it easy to diagnose and correct idempotence problems.

Project layout

For the folders below in monospace text, they are published on maven central at the coordinate com.diffplug.spotless:spotless-${FOLDER_NAME}. The other folders are dev infrastructure.

Folder Description
lib Contains all of Spotless' core infrastructure and most of its FormatterStep - has no external dependencies.
testlib Contains testing infrastructure and all test resources, so that they can be reused in plugin-specific integration tests. Also contains tests for lib.
lib-extra Contains the optional parts of Spotless which require external dependencies. LineEnding.GIT_ATTRIBUTES won't work unless lib-extra is available.
plugin-gradle Integrates spotless and all of its formatters into Gradle.
plugin-maven Integrates spotless and all of its formatters into Maven.
_ext Folder for generating glue jars (specifically packaging Eclipse jars from p2 for consumption using maven).

How to add a new FormatterStep

The easiest way to create a FormatterStep is FormatterStep createNeverUpToDate(String name, FormatterFunc function), which you can use like this:

FormatterStep identityStep = FormatterStep.createNeverUpToDate("identity", unixStr -> unixStr)

This creates a step which will fail up-to-date checks (it is equal only to itself), and will use the function you passed in to do the formatting pass.

To create a step which can handle up-to-date checks properly, use the method <State extends Serializable> FormatterStep create(String name, State state, Function<State, FormatterFunc> stateToFormatter). Here's an example:

public final class ReplaceStep {
  private ReplaceStep() {}

  public static FormatterStep create(String name, CharSequence target, CharSequence replacement) {
    return FormatterStep.create(name,
        new State(target, replacement),
        State::toFormatter);
  }

  private static final class State implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    private final CharSequence target;
    private final CharSequence replacement;

    State(CharSequence target, CharSequence replacement) {
      this.target = target;
      this.replacement = replacement;
    }

    FormatterFunc toFormatter() {
      return unixStr -> unixStr.replace(target, replacement);
    }
  }
}

The FormatterStep created above implements equals and hashCode based on the serialized representation of its State. This trick makes it quick and easy to write steps which properly support up-to-date checks.

Oftentimes, a rule's state will be expensive to compute. EclipseFormatterStep, for example, depends on a formatting file. Ideally, we would like to only pay the cost of the I/O needed to load that file if we have to - we'd like to create the FormatterStep now but load its state lazily at the last possible moment. For this purpose, each of the FormatterStep.create methods has a lazy counterpart. Here are their signatures:

FormatterStep createNeverUpToDate    (String name, FormatterFunc function                  )
FormatterStep createNeverUpToDateLazy(String name, Supplier<FormatterFunc> functionSupplier)
FormatterStep create    (String name, State state                  , Function<State, FormatterFunc> stateToFormatter)
FormatterStep createLazy(String name, Supplier<State> stateSupplier, Function<State, FormatterFunc> stateToFormatter)

If your formatting step only needs to call one or two methods of the external dependency, you can pull it in at runtime and call it via reflection. See the logic for EclipseFormatterStep or GoogleJavaFormatStep.

Here's a checklist for creating a new step for Spotless:

  • Class name ends in Step, SomeNewStep.
  • Class has a public static method named create that returns a FormatterStep.
  • Has a test class named SomeNewStepTest.
  • Test class has test methods to verify behavior.
  • Test class has a test method equality() which tests equality using StepEqualityTester (see existing methods for examples).

Third-party dependencies via reflection or compile-only source sets

Most formatters are going to use some kind of third-party jar. Spotless integrates with many formatters, some of which have incompatible transitive dependencies. To address this, we resolve third-party dependencies using JarState. To call methods on the classes in that JarState, you can either use reflection or a compile-only source set. See #524 for examples of both approaches.

  • Adding a compile-only sourceset is easier to read and probably a better approach for most cases.
  • Reflection is more flexible, and might be a better approach for a very simple API.

Accessing the underlying File

In order for Spotless' model to work, each step needs to look only at the String input, otherwise they cannot compose. However, there are some cases where the source File is useful, such as to look at the file extension. In this case, you can pass a FormatterFunc.NeedsFile instead of a FormatterFunc. This should only be used in rare circumstances, be careful that you don't accidentally depend on the bytes inside of the File!

Integrating outside the JVM

There are many great formatters (prettier, clang-format, black, etc.) which live entirely outside the JVM. We have two main strategies for these:

Because of Spotless' up-to-date checking and git ratcheting, Spotless actually doesn't have to call formatters very often, so even an expensive shell call for every single invocation isn't that bad. Anything that works is better than nothing, and we can always speed things up later if it feels too slow (but it probably won't).

How to enable the _ext projects

The _ext projects are disabled per default, since:

  • some of the projects perform vast downloads at configuration time
  • the downloaded content may change on server side and break CI builds

The _ext can be activated via the root project property com.diffplug.spotless.include.ext.

Activate the property via command line, like for example:

gradlew -Pcom.diffplug.spotless.include.ext=true build

Or set the property in your user gradle.properties file, which is especially recommended if you like to work with the _ext projects using IDEs.

How to add a new plugin for a build system

The gist of it is that you will have to:

  • Use the build system's user-interface to define a "format" as a set of files, and the list of FormatterStep the user would like enforced on those files.
  • Use the build system's execution logic to create a Formatter with the appropriate FormatterStep, and pass it the files to be formatted and/or checked.
  • To use the good FormatterStep like EclipseFormatterStep or GoogleJavaFormatStep, you'll need to implement Provisioner, which is a generic API for the build system's native mechanism for resolving dependencies from maven: Set<File> provisionWithDependencies(Collection<String> mavenCoordinates).
  • (Optional) Tie into the build system's native up-to-date mechanism.
  • (Optional) Use PaddedCell to proactively catch and resolve idempotence issues.

plugin-gradle is the canonical example which uses everything that Spotless has to offer. It's only ~700 lines.

If you get something running, we'd love to host your plugin within this repo as a peer to plugin-gradle and plugin-maven.

Integration testing

Gradle - locally

First, run ./gradlew publishToMavenLocal in your local checkout of Spotless. Now, in any other project on your machine, you can use the following snippet in your settings.gradle (for Gradle 6.0+).

pluginManagement {
  repositories {
    mavenLocal {
      content {
        includeGroup 'com.diffplug.spotless'
      }
    }
    gradlePluginPortal()
  }
  resolutionStrategy {
    eachPlugin {
      if (requested.id.id == 'com.diffplug.spotless') {
        useModule('com.diffplug.spotless:spotless-plugin-gradle:{latest-SNAPSHOT}')
      }
    }
  }
}

Gradle - any commit in a public GitHub repo (this one, or any fork)

In Gradle 6.0+, you can use the following snippet in your settings.gradle.

pluginManagement {
  repositories {
    maven {
      url 'https://jitpack.io'
      content {
        includeGroup 'com.github.{{user-or-org}}.spotless'
      }
    }
    gradlePluginPortal()
  }
  resolutionStrategy {
    eachPlugin {
      if (requested.id.id == 'com.diffplug.spotless') {
        useModule('com.github.{{USER_OR_ORG}}.spotless:spotless-plugin-gradle:{{SHA_OF_COMMIT_YOU_WANT}}')
      }
    }
  }
}

If it doesn't work, you can check the JitPack log at https://jitpack.io/com/github/{{USER_OR_ORG}}/spotless/{{SHA_OF_COMMIT_YOU_WANT}}/build.log.

Maven

Run ./gradlew publishToMavenLocal to publish this to your local repository. You can also use the JitPack artifacts, using the same principles as Gradle above.

License

By contributing your code, you agree to license your contribution under the terms of the APLv2: https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/blob/main/LICENSE.txt

All files are released with the Apache 2.0 license as such:

Copyright 2020 DiffPlug

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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