Haxe Checkstyle for Visual Studio Code

Features

• Runs haxe-checkstyle when opening and saving documents
• Displays results as VS Code diagnostics
• Supports quickfixes for a small selection of checks
• Includes json schema definitions for both checkstyle.json and checkstyle-excludes.json
• Uses haxe-checkstyle engine
• Works with your existing haxe-checkstyle configuration

Configuration

A configuration key named haxecheckstyle.sourceFolders holds an array of folder names where checkstyle should run. It defaults to ["src", "Source"], which is the equivalent to passing -s <src> -s <Source> to haxe-checkstyle CLI. Checkstyle will ignore any file not included in sourceFolders.

vscode-checkstyle accepts your regular haxe-checkstyle configuration files (checkstyle.json and checkstyle-excludes.json).

Unlike the CLI version vscode-checkstyle will search a file's path for a checkstyle.json configuration that is closest to it. Searching moves upwards and stops at (but includes) your workspace root. That way you can have a library folder inside your workspace provide its own checkstyle.json (which might be different from your personal coding style).

If there is no checkstyle.json in any folders up to your workspace root, vscode-checkstyle tries to learn its location by reading key haxecheckstyle.configurationFile from your VS Code settings.

haxecheckstyle.codeSimilarityBufferSize sets a limit to how many files will be kept for CodeSimilarity check (Defaults to 100).

Quickfixes

You can apply quickfixes one at a time or by selecting a range including multiple checkstyle violations.

The following checks provide quickfixes:

• Dynamic
• EmptyPackage
• Final
• Indentation
• ModifierOrder
• RedundantModifier
• StringLiteral
• Trace
• UnusedImport

JSON Schema Definitions

vscode-checkstyle comes with JSON schemas for checkstyle.json and checkstyle-excludes.json, which will help you through autocomplete and tooltips when editing both file types. e.g.:

Documentation

See Haxe-Checkstyle docs or use JSON Schema tooltips for documentation on checks.

Limitations

• it doesn't see violations in your project files until you open them
• CodeSimilarity check uses a ringbuffer to limit the number of files in similarity cache (configure via haxecheckstyle.codeSimilarityBufferSize - defaults to 100)

TODO

• Check on all the workspace
• And more :)