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• Source code quality
  • Coding style
  • Checking code style with IntelliJ IDEA
    • Editing built-in config
    • Using cloned config
  • Using Gradle plugin
  • Using pre-commit
    • Disabling hooks for a commit
    • Updating hooks

Coding style

Logisim-evolution uses Google Java Style code style as provided with the Checkstyle static analyzer tool, with a few checks disabled as specified in the checkstyle-suppressions.xml config file located in project root directory (from where it should be automatically picked by Checkstyle).

Checking code style with IntelliJ IDEA

As we use a suppression config file, you can set up IntelliJ's Checkstyle plugin in two ways: one adds our suppressions to the built-in "Google Checks" config, the other creates a completely new config using a copy from the Checkstyle source archive. Either way, you need to install the CheckStyle-IDEA plugin first:

• Go to Settings -> Plugins.
• Install CheckStyle-IDEA plugin (by Jamie Shiell) from the JetBrains' Marketplace repository.

Editing built-in config

Edit the existing Google Checks configuration:

• Open the Tools -> Checkstyle plugin settings.
• Activate the Google Checks configuration.
• Some rules should be disabled, so we also ship a checkstyle-suppressions.xml config file. It lives in the project's root directory and should be picked up automatically. It should not be necessary to do anything else with it for it to be used.
• You can now run Checkstyle using the Checkstyle command or directly from the CheckStyle tab.
• Ensure Rules:, shown in the scan result window, reads Google Checks.

Using cloned config

You can configure InteliJ's CheckStyle plugin to behave exactly as we configure it:

• Open the Tools -> Checkstyle plugin settings.
• Set the Checkstyle version to your liking.
• Go to the Checkstyle GitHub page and look for a release matching the selected Checkstyle version and download the source archive.
• Unpack it and copy out the src/main/resources/google_checks.xml file to project root directory.
• Go back to the plugin configuration and add a new "Configuration file":
  • Click the + icon.
  • Set the description to Logisim-evolution.
  • Select Use a local Checkstyle file.
  • Click Browse and point to the google_checks.xml file.
  • Enable Store relative to project location and click Next.
  • Some rules should be disabled, so we also ship a checkstyle-suppressions.xml config file. It lives in the project's root directory and should be picked up automatically. It should not be necessary to do anything else with it for it to be used. If for any reason you need that changed, edit configuration and look for a property named org.checkstyle.google.suppressionfilter.config, then set its value to checksyle-suppressions.xml and click `Next.
  • Click "Finish".
• You can now run Checkstyle using the Checkstyle command or directly from the CheckStyle tab.
• Ensure Rules:, shown in the scan result window, reads Logisim-evolution.

Using Gradle plugin

Checkstyle is also plugged into the project's Gradle build system and provides the checkstyleMain and checkstyleTest tasks:

$ ./gradlew checkstyleMain

This should kick in automatically for some build tasks but if for any reason you want Checkstyle to not be run during your builds, exclude these tasks with -x, i.e:

$ ./gradlew build -x checkstyleMain -x checkstyleTest

Using pre-commit hooks

To improve quality of your commit, it's recommended to use pre-commit hooks, that will block your commits unless all pre-commit tests pass. Logisim-evolution comes with predefined .pre-commit-config.yaml config file for your convenience.

Brief installation instruction (see pre-commit official installation docs too):

• Ensure you got Python installed
• Install pre-commit: pip install pre-commit
• Go to your Logisim-evolution source code root directory
• Copy provided config file template: cp .pre-commit-config.yaml.dist .pre-commit-config.yaml
• Plug hooks into Git pipeline: pre-commit install

Disabling hooks for a commit

Not all hooks are perfect, so sometimes you may need to skip execution of one or more (or even all) hooks. pre-commit solves this in two ways. To disable pre-commit completely, pass --no-verify to git:

$ git commit -a --no-verify

Alternatively, you may disable specific hooks only by using a SKIP environment variable, that is holds a comma separated list of hook IDs to be omitted:

$ SKIP=checkstyle-jar git commit -a -m "Some changes"

Updating hooks

Please remember to keep used hooks up to date, by periodically running

$ pre-commit autoupdate