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Add documentation about the script and regex linter to the user guide.
Summary: The big, gigantic comment about the script and regex linter belongs in a more obvious place. I think this is a more obvious place. I also cleaned up a couple things. I'll update D9084 to remove the big comment block and point here instead. Test Plan: `bin/diviner generate --book src/docs/book/user.book` Reviewers: #blessed_reviewers, epriestley Reviewed By: #blessed_reviewers, epriestley Subscribers: epriestley, Korvin Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D9100
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- integrating and customizing built-in linters and lint bindings with
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@{article:Arcanist User Guide: Customizing Existing Linters}; or
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- use a linter that hasn't been integrated into Arcanist with
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@{article:Arcanist User Guide: Script and Regex Linter}; or
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- learning how to add new linters and lint engines with
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@{article:Arcanist User Guide: Customizing Lint, Unit Tests and Workflows}.
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@title Arcanist User Guide: Script and Regex Linter
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@group userguide
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Explains how to use the Script and Regex linter to invoke an existing
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lint engine that is not integrated with Arcanist.
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The Script and Regex linter is a simple glue linter which runs some
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script on each path, and then uses a regex to parse lint messages from
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the script's output. (This linter uses a script and a regex to
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interpret the results of some real linter, it does not itself lint
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both scripts and regexes).
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Configure this linter by setting these keys in your configuration:
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- `script-and-regex.script` Script command to run. This can be
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the path to a linter script, but may also include flags or use shell
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features (see below for examples).
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- `script-and-regex.regex` The regex to process output with. This
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regex uses named capturing groups (detailed below) to interpret output.
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The script will be invoked from the project root, so you can specify a
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relative path like `scripts/lint.sh` or an absolute path like
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`/opt/lint/lint.sh`.
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This linter is necessarily more limited in its capabilities than a normal
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linter which can perform custom processing, but may be somewhat simpler to
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configure.
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== Script... ==
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The script will be invoked once for each file that is to be linted, with
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the file passed as the first argument. The file may begin with a "-"; ensure
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your script will not interpret such files as flags (perhaps by ending your
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script configuration with "--", if its argument parser supports that).
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Note that when run via `arc diff`, the list of files to be linted includes
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deleted files and files that were moved away by the change. The linter should
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not assume the path it is given exists, and it is not an error for the
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linter to be invoked with paths which are no longer there. (Every affected
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path is subject to lint because some linters may raise errors in other files
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when a file is removed, or raise an error about its removal.)
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The script should emit lint messages to stdout, which will be parsed with
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the provided regex.
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For example, you might use a configuration like this:
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"script-and-regex.script": "/opt/lint/lint.sh --flag value --other-flag --"
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stderr is ignored. If you have a script which writes messages to stderr,
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you can redirect stderr to stdout by using a configuration like this:
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"script-and-regex.script": "sh -c '/opt/lint/lint.sh \"$0\" 2>&1'"
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The return code of the script must be 0, or an exception will be raised
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reporting that the linter failed. If you have a script which exits nonzero
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under normal circumstances, you can force it to always exit 0 by using a
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configuration like this:
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"script-and-regex.script": "sh -c '/opt/lint/lint.sh \"$0\" || true'"
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Multiple instances of the script will be run in parallel if there are
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multiple files to be linted, so they should not use any unique resources.
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For instance, this configuration would not work properly, because several
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processes may attempt to write to the file at the same time:
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COUNTEREXAMPLE
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"script-and-regex.script": "sh -c '/opt/lint/lint.sh --output /tmp/lint.out \"$0\" && cat /tmp/lint.out'"
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There are necessary limits to how gracefully this linter can deal with
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edge cases, because it is just a script and a regex. If you need to do
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things that this linter can't handle, you can write a phutil linter and move
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the logic to handle those cases into PHP. PHP is a better general-purpose
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programming language than regular expressions are, if only by a small margin.
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== ...and Regex ==
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The regex must be a valid PHP PCRE regex, including delimiters and flags.
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The regex will be matched against the entire output of the script, so it
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should generally be in this form if messages are one-per-line:
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/^...$/m
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The regex should capture these named patterns with `(?P<name>...)`:
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- `message` (required) Text describing the lint message. For example,
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"This is a syntax error.".
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- `name` (optional) Text summarizing the lint message. For example,
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"Syntax Error".
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- `severity` (optional) The word "error", "warning", "autofix", "advice",
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or "disabled", in any combination of upper and lower case. Instead, you
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may match groups called `error`, `warning`, `advice`, `autofix`, or
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`disabled`. These allow you to match output formats like "E123" and
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"W123" to indicate errors and warnings, even though the word "error" is
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not present in the output. If no severity capturing group is present,
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messages are raised with "error" severity. If multiple severity capturing
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groups are present, messages are raised with the highest captured
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serverity. Capturing groups like `error` supersede the `severity`
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capturing group.
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- `error` (optional) Match some nonempty substring to indicate that this
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message has "error" severity.
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- `warning` (optional) Match some nonempty substring to indicate that this
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message has "warning" severity.
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- `advice` (optional) Match some nonempty substring to indicate that this
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message has "advice" severity.
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- `autofix` (optional) Match some nonempty substring to indicate that this
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message has "autofix" severity.
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- `disabled` (optional) Match some nonempty substring to indicate that this
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message has "disabled" severity.
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- `file` (optional) The name of the file to raise the lint message in. If
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not specified, defaults to the linted file. It is generally not necessary
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to capture this unless the linter can raise messages in files other than
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the one it is linting.
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- `line` (optional) The line number of the message.
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- `char` (optional) The character offset of the message.
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- `offset` (optional) The byte offset of the message. If captured, this
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supersedes `line` and `char`.
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- `original` (optional) The text the message affects.
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- `replacement` (optional) The text that the range captured by `original`
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should be automatically replaced by to resolve the message.
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- `code` (optional) A short error type identifier which can be used
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elsewhere to configure handling of specific types of messages. For
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example, "EXAMPLE1", "EXAMPLE2", etc., where each code identifies a
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class of message like "syntax error", "missing whitespace", etc. This
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allows configuration to later change the severity of all whitespace
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messages, for example.
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- `ignore` (optional) Match some nonempty substring to ignore the match.
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You can use this if your linter sometimes emits text like "No lint
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errors".
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- `stop` (optional) Match some nonempty substring to stop processing input.
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Remaining matches for this file will be discarded, but linting will
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continue with other linters and other files.
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- `halt` (optional) Match some nonempty substring to halt all linting of
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this file by any linter. Linting will continue with other files.
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- `throw` (optional) Match some nonempty substring to throw an error, which
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will stop `arc` completely. You can use this to fail abruptly if you
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encounter unexpected output. All processing will abort.
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Numbered capturing groups are ignored.
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For example, if your lint script's output looks like this:
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error:13 Too many goats!
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warning:22 Not enough boats.
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...you could use this regex to parse it:
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/^(?P<severity>warning|error):(?P<line>\d+) (?P<message>.*)$/m
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The simplest valid regex for line-oriented output is something like this:
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/^(?P<message>.*)$/m
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