Head over to the user docs for instructions on how to install scalafmt.
I hope to make scalafmt a community effort so that the project has a truck number bigger than 1. I've tried to do my best to concisely summarise how I work on scalafmt. For any questions, don't hesitate to ask on gitter.
core/testOnly org.scalafmt.FormatTests: runs the fast, most relevant, unit tests.- After each run, a performance report is generated in
target/index.html. I usually keep a browser tab open atlocalhost:3000/target/index.htmlalong with this background process:browser-sync start --server --files "target/*.html". See Browsersync.
- After each run, a performance report is generated in
core/testOnly org.scalafmt.FidelityTest: runs the formatter on all files in this project.run-benchmarks.shscript to run jmh benchmarks.core/test:runMain org.scalafmt.FormatExperimentApp:- Uses
wgetto download a ~20mb tar (repos.tar.gz) that contains ~28.000 Scala source files from public Github repos, - untars with
tar, - runs scalafmt on a subset of the files, specified in
FormatExperiment. Runs various property based checks under timing constraints (around 10s per file), - prints summary report to console.
- Uses
- instructions for the tests are here.
I want to add a new configuration flag spacesInParentheses so that function
applications look like this
// Before
function(a, b, c)
// After
function( a, b, c )- Clone the repo, cd into it, start
sbtand then run~core/testOnly org.scalafmt.FormatTests. The unit tests should pass. - Open
ScalafmtStyle.scalaand add a memberspacesInParentheses: Boolean. Now you get a compiler error. FixScalafmtStyle.defaultstyle so that it hasspacesInParentheses = true. The code should compile now and all tests should pass. - Open
core/src/test/resources/unit/Hacking.statand you will see a test like this
40 columns |
<<< SKIP Spaces in parentheses
function(a, b, c)
>>>
function( a, b, c )- The column limit is 40 characters, because the test is in the
unitdirectory. - The test does not run because its name starts with SKIP.
- Change SKIP to ONLY, save and sbt should now only run this test and give you a failing output like this:
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:85 NoSplit:56(cost=0, indents=[], NoPolicy) 0 0
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:85 NoSplit:56(cost=0, indents=[], NoPolicy) 0 8
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:85 function NoSplit:281(cost=0, indents=[], NoPolicy) 0 9
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:85 ( NoSplit:448(cost=0, indents=[4], P:412(D=true)) 4 10
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:85 a NoSplit:494(cost=0, indents=[], NoPolicy) 4 11
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:85 , Space:514(cost=0, indents=[], NoPolicy) 4 13
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:85 b NoSplit:494(cost=0, indents=[], NoPolicy) 4 14
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:85 , Space:514(cost=0, indents=[], NoPolicy) 4 16
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:85 c NoSplit:1005(cost=0, indents=[], NoPolicy) 4 17
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:85 ) Newline:60(cost=0, indents=[], NoPolicy) 0 0
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:127 Total cost: 0
[debug] FormatTests.scala:90 Split(line=56, count=1), Split(line=448, count=1), Split(line=514, count=1)
[debug] FormatTests.scala:91 Total explored: 12
[info] FormatTests:
[info] - unit/Hacking.stat: Spaces in parentheses | *** FAILED *** (278 milliseconds)
[info] ===========
[info] => Obtained
[info] ===========
[info] function(a, b, c)
[info]
[info]
[info] =======
[info] => Diff
[info] =======
[info] -function(a, b, c)
[info] +function( a, b, c ) (FormatTests.scala:33)
[info] Run completed in 443 milliseconds.
[info] Total number of tests run: 1
[info] Suites: completed 1, aborted 0
[info] Tests: succeeded 0, failed 1, canceled 0, ignored 0, pending 0
[info] *** 1 TEST FAILED ***
[error] Failed tests:- Cool. The lines printed out from FormatWriter are interesting.
Look at the first line, it has
NoSplit:56(cost=0 ...). This means that between the beginning of the file and thefunctiontoken is a NoSplit that origins from line 56 incore/src/main/scala/org/scalafmt/internal/Router.scala. Lets find that line:
private def getSplits(formatToken: FormatToken): Seq[Split] = {
val leftOwner = owners(formatToken.left)
val rightOwner = owners(formatToken.right)
val newlines = newlinesBetween(formatToken.between)
formatToken match {
case FormatToken(_: BOF, _, _) =>
Seq(
Split(NoSplit, 0) // <--- Line 56
)
...- BOF stands for "beginning of file".
- Look at
NoSplit:281
// Opening ( with no leading space.
case FormatToken(
_: `this` | _: Ident | _: `]` | _: `}` | _: `)`, _: `(` | _: `[`, _)
if noSpaceBeforeOpeningParen(rightOwner) && {
leftOwner.parent.forall {
// infix applications have no space.
case _: Type.ApplyInfix | _: Term.ApplyInfix => false
case parent => true
}
} =>
Seq(
Split(NoSplit, 0) // <-- Line 281
)- Looks a lot more scary than line 56. What's happening is that we're matching on a FormatToken, which has three members:
case class FormatToken(left: Token, right: Token, between: Vector[Whitespace])- We matched on line 281 because left was
functionwhich is of typeIdent(identifier) and right was the opening parenthesis of type<backtick>(<backtick>. - Let's look at
NoSplit:448then, we want to put a space there instead of a NoSplit.
Seq(
Split(modification, // <-- line 448
0,
policy = singleLine(6),
ignoreIf = !fitsOnOneLine)
.withOptimalToken(expirationToken)
.withIndent(indent, close, Left),modificationis a variable, it's defined like this:
val modification =
if (right.isInstanceOf[Comment]) newlines2Modification(between)
else NoSplit- Let's modify it into this:
val modification =
if (right.isInstanceOf[Comment]) newlines2Modification(between)
else if (style.spacesInParentheses) Space
else NoSplit- Save and see the test run.
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:85 NoSplit:56(cost=0, indents=[], NoPolicy) 0 0
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:85 NoSplit:56(cost=0, indents=[], NoPolicy) 0 8
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:85 function NoSplit:281(cost=0, indents=[], NoPolicy) 0 9
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:85 ( Space:448(cost=0, indents=[4], P:412(D=true)) 4 11
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:85 a NoSplit:494(cost=0, indents=[], NoPolicy) 4 12
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:85 , Space:514(cost=0, indents=[], NoPolicy) 4 14
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:85 b NoSplit:494(cost=0, indents=[], NoPolicy) 4 15
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:85 , Space:514(cost=0, indents=[], NoPolicy) 4 17
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:85 c NoSplit:1005(cost=0, indents=[], NoPolicy) 4 18
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:85 ) Newline:60(cost=0, indents=[], NoPolicy) 0 0
[debug] FormatWriter.scala:127 Total cost: 0
[debug] FormatTests.scala:90 Split(line=56, count=1), Split(line=448, count=1), Split(line=514, count=1)
[debug] FormatTests.scala:91 Total explored: 12
[info] FormatTests:
[info] - unit/Hacking.stat: Spaces in parentheses | *** FAILED *** (298 milliseconds)
[info] ===========
[info] => Obtained
[info] ===========
[info] function( a, b, c)
[info]
[info]
[info] =======
[info] => Diff
[info] =======
[info] -function( a, b, c)
[info] +function( a, b, c ) (FormatTests.scala:33)- Neat, there's a space after the opening
(! Only missing space before closing parenthesis. - Look at line 1005
case FormatToken(_, _: `]` | _: `)`, _) =>
Seq(
Split(NoSplit, 0) // <- line 1005
)- Change the line to this
Split(if (style.spacesInParentheses) Space else NoSplit, 0)- Save and yay, the test passes now.
- Open
Hacking.statagain and remove ONLY from the test name so it looks like this<<< Spaces in parentheses. - Run the tests. Awww, 295 failing tests.
- Look carefully through the diffs check if the output looks nice.
- Change spacesInParentheses to false in the default style.
- Create a new directory in
core/src/test/resourcesnamed spaces (it already exists). - Move
unit/Hacking.stattospaces/Spaces.stat. - Run the test and you will get an error like
[trace] Stack trace suppressed: run last core/test:testOnly for the full output.
[error] Could not run test org.scalafmt.FormatTests: org.scalafmt.Error$UnknownStyle: Don't understand style spaces
- Open the file
core/src/test/scala/org/scalafmt/util/HasTests.scalaand look at thefile2stylemethod.
def file2style(filename: String): ScalafmtStyle =
filename.split("/").reverse(1) match {
case "unit" => ScalafmtStyle.unitTest40
case "default" | "standard" | "scala" => ScalafmtStyle.unitTest80
case "scalajs" => ScalafmtStyle.scalaJs
case "stripMargin" => ScalafmtStyle.default
case "align" =>
ScalafmtStyle.default.copy(alignTokens = AlignToken.default)
case style => throw UnknownStyle(style)
}- Add a case like this
case "spaces" =>
ScalafmtStyle.default.copy(spacesInParentheses = true)- Run the tests. Yay everything seems to be working fine.
- The last thing to do is to add spacesInParentheses to the CLI flags.
- Open
cli/src/main/scala/org/scalafmt/cli/Cli.scala - Add a new flag option like this
opt[Boolean]("spacesInParentheses") action { (bool, c) =>
c.copy(style = c.style.copy(spacesInParentheses = bool))
} text s"See ScalafmtConfig scaladoc."- Clean up your branch and open a PR. I'm sure there will be lots of cases that still need more fixing but this is a great proof-of-concept. I recommend you get some feedback.
Shamelessly stolen from lihaoyi/ammonite.
- All code PRs should come with: a meaningful description, inline-comments for important things, unit tests (positive and negative), and a green build in CI. Note, the tests format 1.2 million lines of code twice which takes ~1hr to run on travis.
- Format your code with the lastest release of scalafmt, default style..
- PRs for features should generally come with something added to the
Documentation, so people can discover
that it exists. The docs are written in
readme/Readme.scalatex. - Be prepared to discuss/argue-for your changes if you want them merged! You will probably need to refactor so your changes fit into the larger codebase - If your code is hard to unit test, and you don't want to unit test it, that's ok. But be prepared to argue why that's the case!
- It's entirely possible your changes won't be merged, or will get ripped out later. This is also the case for my changes, as the Author!
- Even a rejected/reverted PR is valuable! It helps explore the solution space, and know what works and what doesn't. For every line in the repo, at least three lines were tried, committed, and reverted/refactored, and more than 10 were tried without committing.
- Feel free to send Proof-Of-Concept PRs that you don't intend to get merged.
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