`FormatPlugin` and `LintPlugin` are not `BuildToolPlugin`.

[qxiang]

Most formatting and linting tasks happen at build time and Xcode has support for build time plugins if they conform to BuildToolPlugin. Therefore, maybe we should consider making FormatPlugin and LintPlugin BuildToolPlugin? This will make it easier to integrate swift-format for people who use Xcode.

[allevato]

There is some previous discussion of this in this pull request.

[tonyarnold]

@allevato is there interest in this? I'd be happy to pick up adding build plugins, but it would probably necessitate hosting pre-built binaries and including them via binaryTarget (assuming these plugins were to be created as pre-build commands).

[tskippervold]

@tonyarnold I think it would be a very nice addition to be able to either lint or format the code during the build phase.

[macshome]

I'm happy to help out with this. I had closed #489 as it felt as if we needed the larger solution of making things into build plugins.

[ylorn]

Any updates on this? It will really handy to have the lint warnings while building.

[BrentMifsud]

Any updates here?

SwiftLint has become very bloated. It would be nice to finally be able to use the official linter/formatter

[BrentMifsud]

I attempted this here #690 but without a hosted binary, the build plugins cannot be run.

[ahoppen]

Tracked in Apple’s issue tracker as rdar://126948335

[BrentMifsud]

is there any movement on this?

[BrentMifsud]

Just my yearly checkup on this issue.

Is there any chance of this ever coming? Is there a reason there is so little movement here? Is it a limitation of SPM? Im just curious. Because SwiftLint has had this available for quite some time.

EDIT: I noticed that this tool is now included with the swift toolchain. That's huge.

Does anyone know if there is a way to get this running when working on swift packages? As far as I am aware, you can only run pre-build scripts for Xcode app projects.

[tonyarnold]

It works fine with Swift Packages - there's no such limitation around pre-build commands.

Here, use this as your plugin, and it should work just fine: https://gist.github.com/tonyarnold/9ce276cb6cd3c0e4933c070e1ab5ecac

I found Xcode would not show the warnings in the navigator for Xcode targets, but they show up in the build logs, and within the sources you're working with.

Swift Packages worked great - everything showed up where it should, including in the navigator.