Extension groups?

[modocache]

Sometimes I want to modify all instances of a particular string in an Objective-C/Swift codebase. At Facebook, that means --extensions=h,m,mm,swift,BUCK,plist.

Typing those out is a pain--instead, it might be cool to have "extension groups", or aliases for a list of extensions. For example, if we defined a group called ios, these two would be equivalent:

--extensions=h,m,mm,swift,BUCK,DEFS,plist

--extensions=ios

Since ios means different things to different teams, maybe one should be able to register their own custom groups, instead of codemod making a decision as to what ios means for everyone.

Not sure if this is a good idea, as it might just be adding a complex feature without a great need to--thoughts? 🙌

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[keyan]

I don't personally have a use for this feature, but I could see it being useful. Overall I think it's too much complexity for a niche use-case. Anyone else think this could be helpful?

[rochacbruno]

To implement that we should add ~/.codemodrc file and

[extension_groups]
ios=h,m,mm,swift,BUCK,DEFS,plist

Not a good idea to hardcode the list