Taylor

⚠️ Taylor is DEPRECATED. Use SwiftLint instead.

A tool aimed to increase Swift code quality, by checking for conformance to code metrics.

Taylor uses SourceKitten to a more accurate AST representation and generates the final report in either Xcode, JSON, PMD or plain text formats.

Installation

Homebrew (recommended)

You need to have Homebrew installed.

brew update
brew install taylor

Source

Rebuild dependencies by running carthage bootstrap --platform Mac (Carthage required)
Clone the project and run make install (latest version of Xcode required).

Package

Download the latest release and run:

Taylor.app/Contents/Resources/install

Usage

Xcode

To get warnings displayed in the IDE add a new Run Script Phase with:

if which taylor >/dev/null; then
  taylor -p ${PROJECT_DIR} -r xcode
else
  echo "Taylor not installed"
fi

Command line

To use Taylor from command line run it as follows:

taylor [option1 [option1_argument]] [option2 option2_argument] […]

Available options

taylor	Description
-h/--help	Print help.
-v/--version	Print Taylor version.
-p/--path path	Path to the folder to be analysed (current folder by default).
-e/--exclude file	Path to either directory or file to be excluded from analysis.
-ef/--excludeFile file	Path to exclude file in .yml format.
-f/--file file	File to be included in analysis (may be from an external source).
-t/--type type	Type of files to be analysed.
-vl/--verbosityLevel level	Verbosity level for output messages (info, warning and error).
-r/--reporter type:name	Type of final report (json, xcode, pmd or plain text) and filename.
-rc/--ruleCustomization rule=value	Customize rules by giving custom values. See help for more details.

taylor alone with no arguments analyses .swift files inside current folder.

Excludes

If you want to exclude some files or folders from checking create a new .yml file and call Taylor with -ef /path/to/file argument.
Default filename is excludes.yml and its default location is the folder specified by --path flag.
The following excluding name formats can be specified:

- "/path/to/file"
- "file"
- "Folder"
- "Folder/*"
- ".*Tests.*"

Rules

These are the code quality rules currently existing:

Excessive Class Length

Number of lines in a class must not exceed given limit. Default limit = 400 lines.
Example: taylor -rc ExcessiveClassLength=100.

Excessive Method Length

Number of lines in a method must not exceed given limit. Default limit = 20 lines.
Example: taylor -rc ExcessiveMethodLength=10.

Too Many Methods

Number of methods in a class must not exceed given limit. Default limit = 10 methods.
Example: taylor -rc TooManyMethods=7.

Cyclomatic Complexity

Cyclomatic Complexity number of a method must not exceed maximal admitted value. Default = 5.
Example: taylor -rc CyclomaticComplexity=10.

Nested Block Depth

Block Depth of a method must not exceed maximal admitted value. Default = 3.
Example: taylor -rc NestedBlockDepth=7.

N-Path Complexity

N-Path Complexity of a method must not exceed maximal admitted value. Default = 100.
Example: taylor -rc NPathComplexity=50.

Excessive Parameter List

Number of parameters given to a method must not exceed maximal admitted value. Default = 3.
Example: taylor -rc ExcessiveParameterList=5.

Credits

Thanks to JP Simard for developing SourceKitten.

License

MIT Licensed.