Release Notes¶

0.7¶

oclint:

• Update LLVM/Clang to 3.3
• Use clang_rt.profile library for testing
• Apply Hamcrest concept in all test cases
• Update build system settings to support more unix-list platforms, including FreeBSD
• Redesign the RuleBase interface and introduce RuleCarrier
• Redesign the RuleConfiguration by using std::map
• Improvement to RuleCarrier by following Law of Demeter

oclint-metrics:

• Add references
• Add unit tests for existing metrics
• Take care of extern “C”

oclint-rules:

• Introduce AST matcher rules
• Add references
• Improvement to StdUtil
• Rule scaffolding
• Reporter scaffolding
• Reconsider priorities for certain rules
• Suppress warnings for
  • unused method parameters
  • unused local variables
  • high cyclomatic complexity
  • high npath complexity
  • high ncss value
• Improvement to Existing Rules
  • support __objc_bool in related rules
  • improvement to redundant conditional operator rule
  • improvement to parameter reassignment rule
  • improvement to unused local variable rule
  • improvement to dead code rule
  • improvement to double negative rule
  • Fix #10 - CollapsableIfStatementsRule false positives
  • Fix #16 - MissingBreakInSwitchStatementRule false positive
  • Fix #34 - False unused local variable warning with try/catch
• New Rules
  • misplaced null/nill check
  • broken null/nil check
  • redundant nil check
  • short variable name
  • long variable name
  • too many fields
  • too many methods
  • too many parameters
  • avoid branching statement as last in loop
  • jumbled incrementer
  • objective-c number literals
  • objective-c boxed literals
  • objective-c container literals
  • objective-c object subscripting

oclint-reporters:

• Extract reporters module from core module
• Add PMDReporter
• Add XMLReporter
• Add JSONReporter

oclint-clang-tooling:

• Extract ClangTooling related frontend code to this module from core module

oclint-xcodebuild:

• Support more major compilers
• Parse xcodebuild log for CURRENT_WORKING_FOLDER
• Push source out of CURRENT_WORKING_FOLDER to the bottom of the list
• Support custom xocdebuild log path
• Add support to certain projects with white space in their project name or file path

oclint-scripts:

• Automatically delete all builds when buildRelease
• Extract testAll from ci
• Extract buildAll from ci

0.6¶

oclint:

• Update LLVM/Clang to 3.2, and switch from libClang to libTooling
• Completely redesign the project
  • Use libTooling for AST generation
  • Add metrics system
  • Better rule system
  • Introduce results analysis
  • Better reporters system
• New command line interface
• HTML report has a better UI design

oclint-metrics:

• Add NCSS metric
• Add statement depth metric

oclint-rules:

• Add BitwiseOperatorInConditionalRule
• Add BrokenOddnessCheckRule
• Add CollapsibleIfStatementsRule
• Add ConstantConditionalOperatorRule
• Add DoubleNegativeRule
• Add ForLoopShouldBeWhileLoopRule
• Add GotoStatementRule
• Add MultipleUnaryOperatorRule
• Add ReturnFromFinallyBlockRule
• Add ThrowExceptionFromFinallyBlockRule
• Add DefaultLabelNotLastInSwitchStatementRule
• Add InvertedLogicRule
• Add MissingBreakInSwitchStatementRule
• Add NonCaseLabelInSwitchStatementRule
• Add ParameterReassignmentRule
• Add SwitchStatementsShouldHaveDefaultRule
• Add TooFewBranchesInSwitchStatementRule
• Add EmptyCatchStatementRule
• Add EmptyDoWhileStatementRule
• Add EmptyElseBlockRule
• Add EmptyFinallyStatementRule
• Add EmptyForStatementRule
• Add EmptySwitchStatementRule
• Add EmptyTryStatementRule
• Add EmptyWhileStatementRule
• Add RedundantConditionalOperatorRule
• Add UnnecessaryElseStatementRule
• Add UselessParenthesesRule
• Add LongClassRule
• Add LongLineRule
• Add NcssMethodCountRule
• Add NestedBlockDepthRule

oclint-json-compilation-database:

• Initial release

oclint-xcodebuild:

• Initial release

0.4.3¶

• Added benchmark, use -stats to show
• Smarter tree traversing policy, change traversing policy based on current node type
• Extract Driver logic from main.cpp to separate class
• Load clang header files by default, there is no need to put it into the header search path manually
• Enable automatic reference counting (ARC) with -fobjc-arc flag
• Automated PackageMaker for pkg installer generation
• Code formatting

0.4.2¶

• Add description to violations

0.4.1¶

• Refactoring: aggressively extract methods
• Update LLVM/Clang to 3.1svn

0.4¶

• Command line options to configure input/output, compiler’s behaviors, rules’ thresholds and report formats
• HTML report supported
• Rule configurations supported
• Fixed the false-positive for parameters in a block implementation

0.2.6¶

• Check AST nodes which are declared within the current file being inspected
• Separate unused method parameter rule from unused local variable rule
• For unused local variable, ignore global variables that is not in a block
• Use clang_visitChildrenWithBlock to make the code cleaner and easier to understand
• Fix the false positive for unused method parameter in a pure C function
• Fix the crash when there is no rule dylib in the folder specified
• Use lcov to replace zcov as code coverage generation framework

0.2.4¶

• Treat warnings as violations
• Adopt new CursorExtractionUtil using awesome __block feature to replace old TestCursorUtil
• New build configuration for libclang
• New rules
  • Long parameter list
  • Long method
  • Unreachable code
  • Constant if statement
  • If statement with negated condition
  • Redundant if statement
  • Redundant local variable
  • NPath complexity

0.2¶

• Initial academic research release