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rust-clippy
A collection of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code.
There are 258 lints included in this crate!
We have a bunch of lint categories to allow you to choose how much clippy is supposed to annoy help you:
clippy
(everything that has no false positives)clippy_pedantic
(everything)clippy_nursery
(new lints that aren't quite ready yet)clippy_style
(code that should be written in a more idiomatic way)clippy_complexity
(code that does something simple but in a complex way)clippy_perf
(code that can be written in a faster way)clippy_cargo
(checks against the cargo manifest)clippy_correctness
(code that is just outright wrong or very very useless)
More to come, please file an issue if you have ideas!
Table of contents:
Usage
Since this is a tool for helping the developer of a library or application write better code, it is recommended not to include clippy as a hard dependency. Options include using it as an optional dependency, as a cargo subcommand, or as an included feature during build. All of these options are detailed below.
As a general rule clippy will only work with the latest Rust nightly for now.
To install Rust nightly, the recommended way is to use rustup:
rustup install nightly
As a cargo subcommand (cargo clippy
)
One way to use clippy is by installing clippy through cargo as a cargo subcommand.
cargo +nightly install clippy
(The +nightly
is not necessary if your default rustup
install is nightly)
Now you can run clippy by invoking cargo +nightly clippy
.
To update the subcommand together with the latest nightly use the rust-update script or run:
rustup update nightly
cargo +nightly install --force clippy
In case you are not using rustup, you need to set the environment flag
SYSROOT
during installation so clippy knows where to find librustc
and
similar crates.
SYSROOT=/path/to/rustc/sysroot cargo install clippy
Optional dependency
In some cases you might want to include clippy in your project directly, as an
optional dependency. To do this, just modify Cargo.toml
:
[dependencies]
clippy = { version = "*", optional = true }
And, in your main.rs
or lib.rs
, add these lines:
#![cfg_attr(feature="clippy", feature(plugin))]
#![cfg_attr(feature="clippy", plugin(clippy))]
Then build by enabling the feature: cargo +nightly build --features "clippy"
.
Instead of adding the cfg_attr
attributes you can also run clippy on demand:
cargo rustc --features clippy -- -Z no-trans -Z extra-plugins=clippy
(the -Z no trans
, while not necessary, will stop the compilation process after
typechecking (and lints) have completed, which can significantly reduce the runtime).
Alternatively, to only run clippy when testing:
[dev-dependencies]
clippy = { version = "*" }
and add to main.rs
or lib.rs
:
#![cfg_attr(test, feature(plugin))]
#![cfg_attr(test, plugin(clippy))]
Running clippy from the command line without installing it
To have cargo compile your crate with clippy without clippy installation and without needing #![plugin(clippy)]
in your code, you can use:
cargo run --bin cargo-clippy --manifest-path=path_to_clippys_Cargo.toml
Note: Be sure that clippy was compiled with the same version of rustc that cargo invokes here!
As a Compiler Plugin
Note: This is not a recommended installation method.
Since stable Rust is backwards compatible, you should be able to compile your stable programs with nightly Rust with clippy plugged in to circumvent this.
Add in your Cargo.toml
:
[dependencies]
clippy = "*"
You then need to add #![feature(plugin)]
and #![plugin(clippy)]
to the top
of your crate entry point (main.rs
or lib.rs
).
Sample main.rs
:
#![feature(plugin)]
#![plugin(clippy)]
fn main(){
let x = Some(1u8);
match x {
Some(y) => println!("{:?}", y),
_ => ()
}
}
Produces this warning:
src/main.rs:8:5: 11:6 warning: you seem to be trying to use match for destructuring a single type. Consider using `if let`, #[warn(single_match)] on by default
src/main.rs:8 match x {
src/main.rs:9 Some(y) => println!("{:?}", y),
src/main.rs:10 _ => ()
src/main.rs:11 }
src/main.rs:8:5: 11:6 help: Try
if let Some(y) = x { println!("{:?}", y) }
Configuration
Some lints can be configured in a TOML file named with clippy.toml
or .clippy.toml
. It contains basic variable = value
mapping eg.
blacklisted-names = ["toto", "tata", "titi"]
cyclomatic-complexity-threshold = 30
See the list of lints for more information about which lints can be configured and the meaning of the variables.
You can also specify the path to the configuration file with:
#![plugin(clippy(conf_file="path/to/clippy's/configuration"))]
To deactivate the “for further information visit lint-link” message you can
define the CLIPPY_DISABLE_DOCS_LINKS
environment variable.
Allowing/denying lints
You can add options to allow
/warn
/deny
:
-
the whole set of
Warn
lints using theclippy
lint group (#![deny(clippy)]
) -
all lints using both the
clippy
andclippy_pedantic
lint groups (#![deny(clippy)]
,#![deny(clippy_pedantic)]
). Note thatclippy_pedantic
contains some very aggressive lints prone to false positives. -
only some lints (
#![deny(single_match, box_vec)]
, etc) -
allow
/warn
/deny
can be limited to a single function or module using#[allow(...)]
, etc
Note: deny
produces errors instead of warnings.
For convenience, cargo clippy
automatically defines a cargo-clippy
feature. This lets you set lint levels and compile with or without clippy
transparently:
#[cfg_attr(feature = "cargo-clippy", allow(needless_lifetimes))]
Updating rustc
Sometimes, rustc moves forward without clippy catching up. Therefore updating rustc may leave clippy a non-functional state until we fix the resulting breakage.
You can use the rust-update script to update rustc only if clippy would also update correctly.
License
Licensed under MPL. If you're having issues with the license, let me know and I'll try to change it to something more permissive.