This command line tool validates your XML files for proper formatting.
If they are not formatted correctly, it prints the difference and
exits with an error. You can use it two ways: 1) to fail your build
if any XML-ish files (for example, XML, XSD, XSL, or XHTML) are not formatted correctly,
and 2) to format them correctly using --fix
option.
Read this blog post first: XCOP—XML Style Checker.
Make sure you have Ruby installed and then install the tool:
$ gem install xcop
Run it locally and read its output:
$ xcop --help
To validate formatting of your XML files just pass their names as arguments:
$ xcop file1.xml file2.xml
If your files are not formatted correctly and xcop
complains, you
can ask it to "beautify" them, using --fix
option:
$ xcop --fix broken-file.xml
To fix all files in the directory you can do (won't work if your file names contain spaces):
$ xcop --fix $(find . -name '*.xml')
You can put command line options into .xcop
file in the directory
where you start xcop
. Each option should take a single line in the file.
They all will be added to the list of options you specify. For example,
as it was suggested in this blog post:
--license=LICENSE.txt
--nocolor
--quiet
--include=**/*
--exclude=**/*.xsl
--exclude=**/*.html
You can also create ~/.xcop
file (in your personal home directory), which
will also be read and added to the command line options.
This is what you need there:
require 'xcop/rake_task'
desc 'Run XCop on all XML/XSL files in all directories'
Xcop::RakeTask.new(:xcop) do |task|
task.license = 'LICENSE.txt' # no license by default
task.quiet = true # FALSE by default
task.includes = ['**/*.xml', '**/*.xsl'] # xml|xsd|xhtml|xsl|html by default
task.excludes = ['target/**/*'] # empty by default
end
Create new workflow file in repository under .github/workflows/xcop.yml
:
---
name: XCOP
"on":
# run on push to master events
push:
branches:
- master
# run on pull requests to master
pull_request:
branches:
- master
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- uses: g4s8/xcop-action@master
To customize license location or files pattern use action inputs license
and files
:
- uses: g4s8/xcop-action@master
with:
license: MY_LICENSE.txt
files: "src/*.xml"
You can integrate it with the help of maven-antrun-plugin:
<project>
[...]
<build>
[...]
<plugins>
[...]
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.8</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>verify</phase>
<configuration>
<target>
<apply executable="xcop" failonerror="true">
<arg value="--license"/>
<arg value="LICENSE.txt"/>
<fileset dir=".">
<include name="**/*.xml"/>
<include name="**/*.xsd"/>
<exclude name="target/**/*"/>
<exclude name=".idea/**/*"/>
</fileset>
</apply>
</target>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Something like this should work:
<project>
[...]
<target name="xcop">
<apply executable="xcop" failonerror="true">
<arg value="--license"/>
<arg value="LICENSE.txt"/>
<fileset dir=".">
<include name="**/*.xml"/>
<include name="**/*.xsd"/>
<exclude name="target/**/*"/>
<exclude name=".idea/**/*"/>
</fileset>
</apply>
</target>
</project>
Read these guidelines. Make sure you build is green before you contribute your pull request. You will need to have Ruby 2.3+ and Bundler installed. Then:
$ bundle update
$ bundle exec rake
If it's clean and you don't see any error messages, submit your pull request.