corda/gradle-plugins/api-scanner/README.md
Chris Rankin 1e12aebe0a Gradle API Scanner plugin (#1669)
* Skeleton plugin.
* Implement Gradle api-scanner plugin, and apply it.
* Generate API documentation for any jar without a classifier.
* Fix usage of smokeTests classifier.
* Tweak Gradle API usage.
* Upgrade to fast-classpath-scanner 2.7.0
* Include interfaces and more modifiers in the class description.
* Allow system classes to be supertypes and implemented interfaces.
* Make API Scanner plugin configuration tweakable via build.gradle.
* Add a miserable amount of unit testing.
* Sort methods and fields using their natural comparators. Way easier!
* Add README for api-scanner plugin.
* Add @OutputFiles to ScanApiTask.
* Rename ScanApiTask to ScanApi.
* Allow the ScanApi task to be disabled.
* WIP: Create a top-level GenerateApi task to collate the ScanApi output.
* Exclude package-private classes, as well as bridge/synthetic methods.
* Replace "End of Class" delimiter with '##'.
* Don't scan modules whose API is still "in flux".
* Include constructors in the API definitions.
* Finish implementation of GenerateApi task.
* Update README to include GenerateApi task.
* Filter out Kotlin's "internal" methods.
* Assign "fatjar" classifier to the fat jar artifact.
* Enhance README for GenerateApi.
* Explain effect of api-scanner plugin, and link to Corda's API strategy.
* Tweak README
* Exclude synthetic Kotlin classes by analysing @Metadata.
* Allow us to exclude some classes explicitly from the API.
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# API Scanner
Generates a text summary of Corda's public API that we can check for API-breaking changes.
```bash
$ gradlew generateApi
```
See [here](../../docs/source/api-index.rst) for Corda's public API strategy. We will need to
apply this plugin to other modules in future Corda releases as those modules' APIs stabilise.
Basically, this plugin will document a module's `public` and `protected` classes/methods/fields,
excluding those from our `*.internal.*` packgages, any synthetic methods, bridge methods, or methods
identified as having Kotlin's `internal` scope. (Kotlin doesn't seem to have implemented `internal`
scope for classes or fields yet as these are currently `public` inside the `.class` file.)
## Usage
Include this line in the `build.gradle` file of every Corda module that exports public API:
```gradle
apply plugin: 'net.corda.plugins.api-scanner'
```
This will create a Gradle task called `scanApi` which will analyse that module's Jar artifacts. More precisely,
it will analyse all of the Jar artifacts that have not been assigned a Maven classifier, on the basis
that these should be the module's main artifacts.
The `scanApi` task supports the following configuration options:
```gradle
scanApi {
// Make the classpath-scanning phase more verbose.
verbose = {true|false}
// Enable / disable the task within this module.
enabled = {true|false}
// Names of classes that should be excluded from the output.
excludeClasses = [
...
]
}
```
All of the `ScanApi` tasks write their output files to their own `$buildDir/api` directory, where they
are collated into a single output file by the `GenerateApi` task. The `GenerateApi` task is declared
in the root project's `build.gradle` file:
```gradle
task generateApi(type: net.corda.plugins.GenerateApi){
baseName = "api-corda"
}
```
The final API file is written to `$buildDir/api/$baseName-$project.version.txt`
### Sample Output
```
public interface net.corda.core.contracts.Attachment extends net.corda.core.contracts.NamedByHash
public abstract void extractFile(String, java.io.OutputStream)
@org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull public abstract List getSigners()
@org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull public abstract java.io.InputStream open()
@org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull public abstract jar.JarInputStream openAsJAR()
##
public interface net.corda.core.contracts.AttachmentConstraint
public abstract boolean isSatisfiedBy(net.corda.core.contracts.Attachment)
##
public final class net.corda.core.contracts.AttachmentResolutionException extends net.corda.core.flows.FlowException
public <init>(net.corda.core.crypto.SecureHash)
@org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull public final net.corda.core.crypto.SecureHash getHash()
##
```
#### Notes
The `GenerateApi` task will collate the output of every `ScanApi` task found either in the same project,
or in any of that project's subprojects. So it is _theoretically_ possible also to collate the API output
from subtrees of modules simply by defining a new `GenerateApi` task at the root of that subtree.
## Plugin Installation
See [here](../README.rst) for full installation instructions.