SwiftCodeSan is a tool that "sanitizes" code written in Swift. It has support for removing dead code (unreferenced decls) and unused imports, and narrowing access levels (public to internal), which will not only help clean up the codebase but also reduce the build time and the binary size.
It uses SwiftSyntax for parsing and uses concurrency for faster performance. Unlike other tools, SwiftCodeSan does not involve compiling; it handles reference checks directly. This eliminates the need to compile the entire project before running an analysis, which can take a long time for codebases like Uber's (~3M LoC).
Main objectives of SwiftCodeSan are accuracy, performance, and ease of use. It's a lightweight commandline tool, which uses the SwiftCodeSanKit framework underneath. It can be used as a standalone tool or integrated into other tools such as a linter. Try SwiftCodeSan and clean up your codebase, and see an improvement in the code quality and the build time.
Main objectives of SwiftCodeSan are accuracy, performance, flexibility, and ease of use. There aren't many 3rd party tools that perform fast on a large codebase containing, for example, over 3M LoC. They require building the entire projects on Xcode (for index stores), and take several hours to run analyses. The results contain false postives and negatives. They don't provide support to modify files directly with the results, and lack features such as finding unused imports or redundant access levels.
SwiftCodeSan was built for scalability and performance so running analyses takes a few minutes instead of hours. Since it does not require compiling the codebase, it can also run on code being developed with any IDEs (not just Xcode). It's a lightweight commandline tool, and uses a minimal set of frameworks necessary (see the Used Libraries below) to keep the code lean and efficient. It provides an input option to directly modify files with results, and features other than removing dead code, such as updating access levels and removing unused import statments.
This project may contain unstable APIs which may not be ready for general use. Support and/or new releases may be limited.
- Swift 5.3 or later
- Xcode 12.0 or later
- MacOS 10.15.4 or later
- Support is included for the Swift Package Manager
Option 1: Clone and build
$ git clone https://github.com/uber/SwiftCodeSan.git
$ cd SwiftCodeSan
$ swift build -c release
$ .build/release/SwiftCodeSan -h // see commandline input options below
Instead of calling the binary SwiftCodeSan built in .build/release, you can copy the executable into a directory that is part of your PATH environment variable and call SwiftCodeSan.
Or use Xcode, via following.
$ swift package generate-xcodeproj
SwiftCodeSan is a commandline executable. To run it, pass in a list of the source file directories or file paths of a build target, and the destination filepath for the mock output. To see other arguments to the commandline, run SwiftCodeSan --help.
./SwiftCodeSan --files-to-modules [file_to_module_list] --remove-deadcode --in-place
The file_to_module_list contains a map of source file paths to corresponding module names. Other input options are --remove-unused-imports and --update-access-levels. If --in-place is set, files will be modified directly.
Use --help to see the complete list of argument options.
Option 1: SPM
dependencies: [
.package(url: "https://github.com/uber/SwiftCodeSan.git", from: "0.0.1"),
],
targets: [
.target(name: "MyTarget", dependencies: ["SwiftCodeSanKit"]),
]The install-script.sh will build and package up the SwiftCodeSan binary and other necessary resources in the same bundle.
$ ./install-script.sh -h // see input options
$ ./install-script.sh -s [source dir] -t SwiftCodeSan -d [destination dir] -o [output filename]
This will create a tarball for distribution, which contains the SwiftCodeSan executable along with a necessary SwiftSyntax parser dylib (lib_InternalSwiftSyntaxParser.dylib). This allows running SwiftCodeSan without depending on where the dylib lives.
See CONTRIBUTING for more info.
If you run into any problems, please file a git issue. Please include:
- The OS version (e.g. macOS 10.15.6)
- The Swift version installed on your machine (from
swift --version) - The Xcode version
- The specific release version of this source code (you can use
git tagto get a list of all the release versions orgit logto get a specific commit sha) - Any local changes on your machine
SwiftCodeSan is licensed under Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE for more information.
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