============
cmake format
============

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The ``cmake-format`` project provides Quality Assurance (QA) tools
for ``cmake``:


* ``cmake-annotate`` can generate pretty HTML from your listfiles

* ``cmake-format`` can format your listfiles nicely so that they don't
  look like crap.

* ``cmake-lint`` can check your listfiles for problems

* ``ctest-to`` can parse a ctest output tree and translate it into a
  more structured format (either JSON or XML).

------------
Installation
------------

Install from ``pypi`` using ``pip``::

    pip install cmakelang

Or see the `online documentation`__ for additional options.

.. __: https://cmake-format.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html

------------
Integrations
------------

* There is an official `vscode extension`__
* Someone also created a `sublime plugin`__
* You can add ``cmake-format`` to your ``pre-commit`` configuration__

.. __: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=cheshirekow.cmake-format
.. __: https://packagecontrol.io/packages/CMakeFormat
.. __: https://cmake-format.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html#pre-commit

-----
Usage
-----

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.. code:: text

    usage:
    cmake-format [-h]
                 [--dump-config {yaml,json,python} | -i | -o OUTFILE_PATH]
                 [-c CONFIG_FILE]
                 infilepath [infilepath ...]

    Parse cmake listfiles and format them nicely.

    Formatting is configurable by providing a configuration file. The configuration
    file can be in json, yaml, or python format. If no configuration file is
    specified on the command line, cmake-format will attempt to find a suitable
    configuration for each ``inputpath`` by checking recursively checking it's
    parent directory up to the root of the filesystem. It will return the first
    file it finds with a filename that matches '\.?cmake-format(.yaml|.json|.py)'.

    cmake-format can spit out the default configuration for you as starting point
    for customization. Run with `--dump-config [yaml|json|python]`.

    positional arguments:
      infilepaths

    optional arguments:
      -h, --help            show this help message and exit
      -v, --version         show program's version number and exit
      -l {error,warning,info,debug}, --log-level {error,warning,info,debug}
      --dump-config [{yaml,json,python}]
                            If specified, print the default configuration to
                            stdout and exit
      --dump {lex,parse,parsedb,layout,markup}
      --no-help             When used with --dump-config, will omit helptext
                            comments in the output
      --no-default          When used with --dump-config, will omit any unmodified
                            configuration value.
      -i, --in-place
      --check               Exit with status code 0 if formatting would not change
                            file contents, or status code 1 if it would
      -o OUTFILE_PATH, --outfile-path OUTFILE_PATH
                            Where to write the formatted file. Default is stdout.
      -c CONFIG_FILES [CONFIG_FILES ...], --config-files CONFIG_FILES [CONFIG_FILES ...]
                            path to configuration file(s)


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    usage:
    cmake-lint [-h]
               [--dump-config {yaml,json,python} | -o OUTFILE_PATH]
               [-c CONFIG_FILE]
               infilepath [infilepath ...]

    Check cmake listfile for lint

    positional arguments:
      infilepaths

    optional arguments:
      -h, --help            show this help message and exit
      -v, --version         show program's version number and exit
      -l {error,warning,info,debug}, --log-level {error,warning,info,debug}
      --dump-config [{yaml,json,python}]
                            If specified, print the default configuration to
                            stdout and exit
      -o OUTFILE_PATH, --outfile-path OUTFILE_PATH
                            Write errors to this file. Default is stdout.
      --no-help             When used with --dump-config, will omit helptext
                            comments in the output
      --no-default          When used with --dump-config, will omit any unmodified
                            configuration value.
      --suppress-decorations
                            Suppress the file title decoration and summary
                            statistics
      -c CONFIG_FILES [CONFIG_FILES ...], --config-files CONFIG_FILES [CONFIG_FILES ...]
                            path to configuration file(s)


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-------------
Configuration
-------------

``cmake-format`` accepts configuration files in yaml, json, or python format.
An example configuration file is given `in the online documentation`__.
Providing the structure of your custom commands will help ``cmake-format`` to
break them up in a pleasant way, and will help `cmake-lint` detect improper
usages of them.

.. __: https://cmake-format.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configuration.html

An example short configuration file in python format is:

.. code:: python

    # -----------------------------
    # Options effecting formatting.
    # -----------------------------
    with section("format"):

      # How wide to allow formatted cmake files
      line_width = 80

      # How many spaces to tab for indent
      tab_size = 2

      # If true, separate flow control names from their parentheses with a space
      separate_ctrl_name_with_space = False

      # If true, separate function names from parentheses with a space
      separate_fn_name_with_space = False

      # If a statement is wrapped to more than one line, than dangle the closing
      # parenthesis on its own line.
      dangle_parens = False

You may specify a path to one or more configuration files with the
``--config-file`` command line option. Otherwise, ``cmake-format`` will search
the ancestry of each ``infilepath`` looking for a configuration file to use.
If no configuration file is found it will use sensible defaults.

A automatically detected configuration files may have any name that matches
``\.?cmake-format(.yaml|.json|.py)``.

If you'd like to create a new configuration file, ``cmake-format`` can help
by dumping out the default configuration in your preferred format. You can run
``cmake-format --dump-config [yaml|json|python]`` to print the default
configuration ``stdout`` and use that as a starting point.

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Markup
-------

``cmake-format`` is for the exceptionally lazy. It will even format your
comments for you. It will reflow your comment text to within the configured
line width. It also understands a very limited markup format for a couple of
common bits.

**rulers**: A ruler is a line which starts with and ends with three or more
non-alphanum or space characters::

    # ---- This is a Ruler ----
    # cmake-format will know to keep the ruler separated from the
    # paragraphs around it. So it wont try to reflow this text as
    # a single paragraph.
    # ---- This is also a Ruler ---


**list**: A list is started on the first encountered list item, which starts
with a bullet character (``*``) followed by a space followed by some text.
Subsequent lines will be included in the list item until the next list item
is encountered (the bullet must be at the same indentation level). The list
must be surrounded by a pair of empty lines. Nested lists will be formatted in
nested text::

    # here are some lists:
    #
    # * item 1
    # * item 2
    #
    #   * subitem 1
    #   * subitem 2
    #
    # * second list item 1
    # * second list item 2

**enumerations**: An enumeration is similar to a list but the bullet character
is some integers followed by a period. New enumeration items are detected as
long as either the first digit or the punctuation lines up in the same column
as the previous item. ``cmake-format`` will renumber your items and align their
labels for you::

    # This is an enumeration
    #
    #   1. item
    #   2. item
    #   3. item

**fences**: If you have any text which you do not want to be formatted you can
guard it with a pair of fences. Fences are three or more tilde characters::

    # ~~~
    # This comment is fenced
    #   and will not be formatted
    # ~~~

Note that comment fences guard reflow of *comment text*, and not cmake code.
If you wish to prevent formatting of cmake, code, see below. In addition to
fenced-literals, there are three other ways to preserve comment text from
markup and/or reflow processing:

* The ``--first-comment-is-literal`` configuration option will exactly preserve
  the first comment in the file. This is intended to preserve copyright or
  other formatted header comments.
* The ``--literal-comment-pattern`` configuration option allows for a more
  generic way to identify comments which should be preserved literally. This
  configuration takes a regular expression pattern.
* The ``--enable-markup`` configuration option globally enables comment markup
  processing. It defaults to true so set it to false if you wish to globally
  disable comment markup processing. Note that trailing whitespace is still
  chomped from comments.

--------------------------
Disable Formatting Locally
--------------------------

You can locally disable and enable code formatting by using the special
comments ``# cmake-format: off`` and ``# cmake-format: on``.

-------------------
Sort Argument Lists
-------------------

Starting with version `0.5.0`, ``cmake-format`` can sort your argument lists
for you. If the configuration includes ``autosort=True`` (the default), it
will replace::

    add_library(foobar STATIC EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL
                sourcefile_06.cc
                sourcefile_03.cc
                sourcefile_02.cc
                sourcefile_04.cc
                sourcefile_07.cc
                sourcefile_01.cc
                sourcefile_05.cc)

with::

    add_library(foobar STATIC EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL
                sourcefile_01.cc
                sourcefile_02.cc
                sourcefile_03.cc
                sourcefile_04.cc
                sourcefile_05.cc
                sourcefile_06.cc
                sourcefile_07.cc)

This is implemented for any argument lists which the parser knows are
inherently sortable. This includes the following cmake commands:

* ``add_library``
* ``add_executable``

For most other cmake commands, you can use an annotation comment to hint to
``cmake-format`` that the argument list is sortable. For instance::

    set(SOURCES
        # cmake-format: sortable
        bar.cc
        baz.cc
        foo.cc)

Annotations can be given in a line-comment or a bracket comment. There is a
long-form and a short-form for each. The acceptable formats are:

+-----------------+-------+------------------------------+
| Line Comment    | long  | ``# cmake-format: <tag>``    |
+-----------------+-------+------------------------------+
| Line Comment    | short | ``# cmf: <tag>``             |
+-----------------+-------+------------------------------+
| Bracket Comment | long  | ``#[[cmake-format: <tag>]]`` |
+-----------------+-------+------------------------------+
| Bracket Comment | short | ``#[[cmf: <tag>]]``          |
+-----------------+-------+------------------------------+

In order to annotate a positional argument list as sortable, the acceptable
tags are: ``sortable`` or ``sort``. For the commands listed above where
the positinal argument lists are inherently sortable, you can locally disable
sorting by annotating them with ``unsortable`` or ``unsort``. For example::

    add_library(foobar STATIC
                # cmake-format: unsort
                sourcefile_03.cc
                sourcefile_01.cc
                sourcefile_02.cc)

Note that this is only needed if your configuration has enabled ``autosort``,
and you can globally disable sorting by making setting this configuration to
``False``.


---------------
Custom Commands
---------------

Due to the fact that cmake is a macro language, `cmake-format` is, by
necessity, a *semantic* source code formatter. In general it tries to make
smart formatting decisions based on the meaning of arguments in an otherwise
unstructured list of arguments in a cmake statement. `cmake-format` can
intelligently format your custom commands, but you will need to tell it how
to interpret your arguments.

Currently, you can do this by adding your command specifications to the
`additional_commands` configuration variables, e.g.:

.. code::

    # Additional FLAGS and KWARGS for custom commands
    additional_commands = {
      "foo": {
        "pargs": 2,
        "flags": ["BAR", "BAZ"],
        "kwargs": {
          "HEADERS": '*',
          "SOURCES": '*',
          "DEPENDS": '*',
        }
      }
    }

The format is a nested dictionary mapping statement names (dictionary keys)
to `argument specifications`__. For the example specification above, the
custom command would look something like this:

.. code::

   foo(hello world
       HEADERS a.h b.h c.h d.h
       SOURCES a.cc b.cc c.cc d.cc
       DEPENDS flub buzz bizz
       BAR BAZ)


.. __: https://cmake-format.rtfd.io/en/latest/custom_parsers.html
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---------------------------------
Reporting Issues and Getting Help
---------------------------------

If you encounter any bugs or regressions or if ``cmake-format`` doesn't behave
in the way that you expect, please post an issue on the
`github issue tracker`_. It is especially helpful if you can provide cmake
listfile snippets that demonstrate any issues you encounter.

.. _`github issue tracker`: https://github.com/cheshirekow/cmakelang/issues

You can also join the ``#cmake-format`` channel on our `discord server`_.

.. _`discord server`: https://discord.gg/NgjwyPy


----------
Developers
----------

If you want to hack on ``cmake-format``, please see the `documentation`__ for
contribution rules and guidelines.

.. __: https://cmake-format.rtfd.io/en/latest/contributing.html

-------
Example
-------

Will turn this:

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.. code:: cmake

    # The following multiple newlines should be collapsed into a single newline




    cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.11)
    project(cmakelang_test)

    # This multiline-comment should be reflowed
    # into a single comment
    # on one line

    # This comment should remain right before the command call.
    # Furthermore, the command call should be formatted
    # to a single line.
    add_subdirectories(foo bar baz
      foo2 bar2 baz2)

    # This very long command should be wrapped
    set(HEADERS very_long_header_name_a.h very_long_header_name_b.h very_long_header_name_c.h)

    # This command should be split into one line per entry because it has a long argument list.
    set(SOURCES source_a.cc source_b.cc source_d.cc source_e.cc source_f.cc source_g.cc source_h.cc)

    # The string in this command should not be split
    set_target_properties(foo bar baz PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "-std=c++11 -Wall -Wextra")

    # This command has a very long argument and can't be aligned with the command
    # end, so it should be moved to a new line with block indent + 1.
    some_long_command_name("Some very long argument that really needs to be on the next line.")

    # This situation is similar but the argument to a KWARG needs to be on a
    # newline instead.
    set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-std=c++11 -Wall -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-unused-parameter -xx")

    set(HEADERS header_a.h header_b.h # This comment should
                                      # be preserved, moreover it should be split
                                      # across two lines.
        header_c.h header_d.h)


    # This part of the comment should
    # be formatted
    # but...
    # cmake-format: off
    # This bunny should remain untouched:
    # . 　 ＿　∩
    # 　　ﾚﾍヽ| |
    # 　　　 (・ｘ・)
    # 　　 c( uu}
    # cmake-format: on
    #          while this part should
    #          be formatted again

    # This is a paragraph
    #
    # This is a second paragraph
    #
    # This is a third paragraph

    # This is a comment
    # that should be joined but
    # TODO(josh): This todo should not be joined with the previous line.
    # NOTE(josh): Also this should not be joined with the todo.

    if(foo)
    if(sbar)
    # This comment is in-scope.
    add_library(foo_bar_baz foo.cc bar.cc # this is a comment for arg2
                                          # this is more comment for arg2, it should be joined with the first.
        baz.cc) # This comment is part of add_library

    other_command(some_long_argument some_long_argument) # this comment is very long and gets split across some lines

    other_command(some_long_argument some_long_argument some_long_argument) # this comment is even longer and wouldn't make sense to pack at the end of the command so it gets it's own lines
    endif()
    endif()


    # This very long command should be broken up along keyword arguments
    foo(nonkwarg_a nonkwarg_b HEADERS a.h b.h c.h d.h e.h f.h SOURCES a.cc b.cc d.cc DEPENDS foo bar baz)

    # This command uses a string with escaped quote chars
    foo(some_arg some_arg "This is a \"string\" within a string")

    # This command uses an empty string
    foo(some_arg some_arg "")

    # This command uses a multiline string
    foo(some_arg some_arg "
        This string is on multiple lines
    ")

    # No, I really want this to look ugly
    # cmake-format: off
    add_library(a b.cc
      c.cc         d.cc
               e.cc)
    # cmake-format: on

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into this:

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.. code:: cmake

    # The following multiple newlines should be collapsed into a single newline

    cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.11)
    project(cmakelang_test)

    # This multiline-comment should be reflowed into a single comment on one line

    # This comment should remain right before the command call. Furthermore, the
    # command call should be formatted to a single line.
    add_subdirectories(foo bar baz foo2 bar2 baz2)

    # This very long command should be wrapped
    set(HEADERS very_long_header_name_a.h very_long_header_name_b.h
                very_long_header_name_c.h)

    # This command should be split into one line per entry because it has a long
    # argument list.
    set(SOURCES
        source_a.cc
        source_b.cc
        source_d.cc
        source_e.cc
        source_f.cc
        source_g.cc
        source_h.cc)

    # The string in this command should not be split
    set_target_properties(foo bar baz PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS
                                                 "-std=c++11 -Wall -Wextra")

    # This command has a very long argument and can't be aligned with the command
    # end, so it should be moved to a new line with block indent + 1.
    some_long_command_name(
      "Some very long argument that really needs to be on the next line.")

    # This situation is similar but the argument to a KWARG needs to be on a newline
    # instead.
    set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS
        "-std=c++11 -Wall -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-unused-parameter -xx")

    set(HEADERS
        header_a.h header_b.h # This comment should be preserved, moreover it should
                              # be split across two lines.
        header_c.h header_d.h)

    # This part of the comment should be formatted but...
    # cmake-format: off
    # This bunny should remain untouched:
    # . 　 ＿　∩
    # 　　ﾚﾍヽ| |
    # 　　　 (・ｘ・)
    # 　　 c( uu}
    # cmake-format: on
    # while this part should be formatted again

    # This is a paragraph
    #
    # This is a second paragraph
    #
    # This is a third paragraph

    # This is a comment that should be joined but
    # TODO(josh): This todo should not be joined with the previous line.
    # NOTE(josh): Also this should not be joined with the todo.

    if(foo)
      if(sbar)
        # This comment is in-scope.
        add_library(
          foo_bar_baz
          foo.cc bar.cc # this is a comment for arg2 this is more comment for arg2,
                        # it should be joined with the first.
          baz.cc) # This comment is part of add_library

        other_command(
          some_long_argument some_long_argument) # this comment is very long and
                                                 # gets split across some lines

        other_command(
          some_long_argument some_long_argument some_long_argument) # this comment
                                                                    # is even longer
                                                                    # and wouldn't
                                                                    # make sense to
                                                                    # pack at the
                                                                    # end of the
                                                                    # command so it
                                                                    # gets it's own
                                                                    # lines
      endif()
    endif()

    # This very long command should be broken up along keyword arguments
    foo(nonkwarg_a nonkwarg_b
        HEADERS a.h b.h c.h d.h e.h f.h
        SOURCES a.cc b.cc d.cc
        DEPENDS foo
        bar baz)

    # This command uses a string with escaped quote chars
    foo(some_arg some_arg "This is a \"string\" within a string")

    # This command uses an empty string
    foo(some_arg some_arg "")

    # This command uses a multiline string
    foo(some_arg some_arg "
        This string is on multiple lines
    ")

    # No, I really want this to look ugly
    # cmake-format: off
    add_library(a b.cc
      c.cc         d.cc
               e.cc)
    # cmake-format: on

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