[cfe-dev] Integrating clang-based refactoring tools into IDEs - best practices?

[Manuel Klimek]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 8:07 PM Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:

>
> In article <CAOsfVvnRwj36LrGnCRv4y7hi9S+ioEzyJNxaEc=
> aM-WmLNDrHA at mail.gmail.com>,
>     Manuel Klimek <klimek at google.com> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 6:27 PM Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
>
> > > Every time I've asked about where to put refactoring tools, I'm always
> > > told "clang-tidy",
> >
> >
> > I'd fine that very curious... (when I say refactoring I usually mean
> > "Fowler-style")
>
> Ah, so you're thinking of very general refactorings like Extract
> Method, Inline Method, etc.  Over the years I've written up some
> refactorings in Fowler style that are specific to C/C++:
> <https://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/category/refactoring/>
>
> The refactorings I've been doing in clang-tidy are maybe what you
> would call "micro refactorings":
>
> if (b == true) => if (b)
>
> ...and yet, these sorts of things are *very* useful from an IDE.  Yes,
> you can run clang-tidy and mark these as "fixups" that are available
> by applying the suggested patch from clang-tidy, but both the micro
> refactorings and the Fowler style ones seem like they'd be better off
> in a library that was invoked in a shorter turnaround cycle from an
> IDE.  Do you agree?
>
> clang-tidy is batch oriented.  IDEs are interactive.
>

I think that's not true in general. clang-tidy, the command line tool, in
its current form is batch oriented. I don't think there's a generic
limitation to integrate clang-tidy into IDEs (we integrate it into our code
review tool for example).


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