Hey folks, I recently committed a new tool to the royale-compiler repository. It's called aslint, and it is a linter to find common issues in .as and .mxml files.
You can find more information about aslint in the documentation that I created: https://apache.github.io/royale-docs/linter This new linter includes a number of rules. Some rules are enabled by default. Other rules are more opinionated, and they may not be right for everyone, so you need to opt into them. We can certainly add more rules in the future, but let's be mindful about which are enabled by default, and which are opt-in. The list of defaults should be small — with a focus on code issues that are most likely to cause actual bugs. Let's strive to avoid enabling formatting rules by default (where braces are placed, spacing around operators, tabs/indents, etc.). Everyone has their own opinions on formatting, and people will avoid using a linter if they don't agree with the formatting it wants to enforce. We can include formatting rules, of course, but we should always make them opt-in. All available command line options, including options to enable or disable specific rules, are documented here: https://apache.github.io/royale-docs/linter/linter-options Additionally, you can create an aslint-config.xml file containing the options you'd like configured for a specific project, and it will be loaded by the tool automatically. https://apache.github.io/royale-docs/linter/aslint-config-file The architecture of aslint is very similar to the asformat tool that I added a while back. It loads one or more files, and it uses the compiler to generate data structures to represent the code in memory. In asformat, it generates a simple token stream with the compiler, which is enough to recognize keywords, operators, and other basic parts of the code. In aslint, it generates a token stream the same way, but it also generates an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST), which allows for a more detailed analysis of the code. Let me know if you run into any issues. Thanks! -- Josh Tynjala Bowler Hat LLC <https://bowlerhat.dev>
