The analysisflags package provides a function to help
ensure that all drivers support consistent command-line
interfaces. In particular, -analyzer.enable flags use
tristate logic as in vet, and the -flags flag dumps
a list of flags in JSON for use by 'go vet' and other
build systems.
This code is in a separate package from internal/checker
(the common parts of multichecker, singlechecker)
because we don't want the forthcoming vet-lite (formerly
known as doctor) driver to have an unnecessary dependency
on go/packages. (When go/packages is promoted to the
standard library we can consolidate them.)
+ Test of tristate analyzer selection logic.
Change-Id: I5ea4e556e0f56505df06eb8fa9dd9eed884a1b47
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/143197
Reviewed-by: Michael Matloob <matloob@golang.org>
The format of Analyzer.Doc is now specified as a short title followed
by a longer description. This allows us to build a nice
self-documenting command-line interface. Much of the documentation in
vet's doc.go and file-level comments can now be displayed to the user.
Change-Id: I462343e97ac9b743284aaa3e06e7a81d11e9593f
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/138396
Reviewed-by: Michael Matloob <matloob@golang.org>
Package checker is a driver for the analysis API.
It is an internal package, but is exposed by three different APIs:
analysistest, singlechecker, and multichecker.
Checker uses go/packages to load the specified packages (plus their
dependencies, if any analysis uses facts) from source code.
It constructs a graph of actions (analysis passes), whose dependency
edges may be "horizontal", when one analyzer depends on the output of
another applied to the same package, or "vertical", when an an
analyzer consumes facts produced by the same analyzer applied to a
dependency package.
The graph is executed in parallel, unless -debug=p.
Facts are passed from one pass to another in memory.
If -debug=s, facts are serialized, to exercise that logic.
Findings are printed at the end.
The -json flag selects JSON output.
Use -debug=t to print timing information.
Always use -debug=tp, for sequential mode, when timing.
Also:
- analysistest: a wrapper for testing checkers
- multichecker: a wrapper for writing multi-checker tools
Analysis flags are prefixed by name: -findcall.name=foo.
- cmd/analyze: a command-line tool based on multichecker
- singlechecker: a wrapper for writing single-checker tools
Analysis flags are unprefixed: -name=foo.
- passes/findcall/cmd/findcall: a standalone tool for the findcall analysis
- tests for findcall
- tests for pkgfact
Change-Id: Icfd4a49cee17e7de1ddb6ec15a62dc667fb2db04
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/135679
Reviewed-by: Ian Cottrell <iancottrell@google.com>
Alan Donovan