flutter_rb

About

CLI tool for checking a Flutter plugin structure.

Checks

Levels

Each issue has a level parameter that describes its significant importance.

Level	Description
NORMAL	Issue not found
WARNING	Issue is not serious and can't break a build
ERROR	Issue is critical and can break a build

Flutter

Check	Description	Level
PluginDirectoriesCheck	Check plugin directories structure in pubspec file. Example: if a Flutter plugin has only Android specific code but not contains iOS folder with description, then iOS build fails	ERROR
PluginPubspecNameCheck	Check plugin name in pubspec file. Exists or not	ERROR
PluginPubspecDescriptionCheck	Check plugin description in pubspec file. Exists or not	WARNING
PluginPubspecVersionCheck	Check plugin version in pubspec. Exists or not	ERROR
PluginPubspecAuthorCheck	Check plugin author in pubspec. Exists or not. author section deprecated in pubspec.yaml	WARNING
PluginPubspecHomepageCheck	Check plugin homepage in pubspec. Exists or not	ERROR
PluginPubspecLintsCheck	Check Flutter plugin lints dependency in pubspec file. Exists or not	ERROR
PluginPubspecFlutterLintsCheck	Check Flutter plugin flutter_lints dependency in pubspec file. Exists or not	ERROR

Android

Check	Description	Level
PluginGradleAndroidPackageCheck	Validate that \android\ package not exists in Gradle project config (build.gradle file)	ERROR
PluginGradleVersionCheck	Check plugin version in Gradle project config (build.gradle file). Version must be the same as plugin version in pubspec file	WARNING

iOS

Check	Description	Level
PluginPodspecNameCheck	Check plugin name in podspec file. Exists or not	WARNING
PluginPodspecVersionCheck	Check plugin version in podspec file. Exists or not	WARNING
PluginPodspecAuthorsCheck	Check plugin's authors in podspec file. Exists or not	ERROR
PluginPodspecSourceCheck	Check plugin iOS source path in podspec file. If Flutter plugin cannot contains iOS specific code, source path must be '.'	ERROR

How to use

Android

You should add flutter-rb-gradle-plugin to Android side of your plugin.

Download gem from RubyGems

$ gem i flutter_rb

Then run from a Flutter plugin's project folder:

$ frb

As local installed gem

Build and install gem from sources:

$ gem build flutter_rb.gemspec
$ gem i flutter_rb

Then run from a Flutter plugin's project folder:

$ frb inspect --path=./project_folder

As local executable

Add project_folder/bin (where project_folder is path to project on your machine) to PATH variable in your environment. Then updated environment and run from a Flutter plugin's project folder:

$ local_frb inspect --path=./project_folder

Commands

Inspect

Starts the flutter-rb.

$ frb inspect --path=./project_folder --report

Argument	Description
--path	Path to Dart/Flutter project. flutter-rb will be use current directory if this parameter are empty
--report	Generate report in Checkstyle format

Version

Puts using version of flutter-rb.

$ frb version

Author

Puts author and our contacts.

$ frb author

Configuration

CLI

Since version 1.2.2 you can generate config by following command in terminal:

$ frb config

Manually

Add .flutter_rb.yaml to root of a project for select checks that you are want to exclude:

exclude:
  flutter:
    - PluginDirectoriesCheck
    - PluginPubspecNameCheck
    - PluginPubspecDescriptionCheck
  android:
    - PluginGradleAndroidPackageCheck
  ios:
    - PluginPodspecNameCheck
    - PluginPodspecVersionCheck
    - PluginPodspecAuthorsCheck

Output report

Tool can make report in Checkstyle format. To enable this feature, pass --checkstyle-report as an CLI argument. The report file name is frb-checkstyle-report.xml.

How to contribute

Documentation

Just run:

$ rdoc

Contribution

Read Commit Convention. Make sure your build is green before you contribute your pull request. Then:

$ bundle exec rake

If you don't see any error messages, submit your pull request.

Contributors

• @fartem as Artem Fomchenkov