HawkEye

Simple license header checker and formatter, in multiple distribution forms.

Usage

You can use HawkEye in GitHub Actions or in your local machine. HawkEye provides three basic commands:

# check license headers
hawkeye check

# format license headers (auto-fix all files that failed the check)
hawkeye format

# remove license headers
hawkeye remove

You can use -h or --help to list out all config options.

GitHub Actions

The HawkEye GitHub Action enables users to run license header check by HawkEye with a config file.

First of all, add a licenserc.toml file in the root of your project. The simplest config for projects licensed under Apache License 2.0 is as below:

[!NOTE] The full configurations can be found in the configuration section.

headerPath = "Apache-2.0.txt"

[properties]
inceptionYear = 2023
copyrightOwner = "tison <wander4096@gmail.com>"

You should change the copyright line according to your information.

To check license headers in GitHub Actions, add a step in your GitHub workflow:

- name: Check License Header
  uses: korandoru/hawkeye@v6

Docker

Alpine image (~18MB):

docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/github/workspace ghcr.io/korandoru/hawkeye check

Arch Linux

[!NOTE] Reach out to the maintainer (@orhun) of the package or report issues on Arch Linux GitLab in the case of packaging-related problems.

hawkeye can be installed with pacman:

pacman -S hawkeye

Cargo Install

The hawkeye executable can be installed by:

cargo install hawkeye

Prebuilt Binary

Instead of cargo install, you can install hawkeye as a prebuilt binary by:

export VERSION=v6.0.0
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/korandoru/hawkeye/releases/download/$VERSION/hawkeye-installer.sh | sh

It would retain more build info (output by hawkeye -V) than cargo install.

Build

This steps requires Rust toolchain.

cargo build --workspace --all-features --bin --tests --examples --benches

Build Docker image:

docker build . -t hawkeye

Configurations

Config file

# Base directory for the whole execution.
# All relative paths is based on this path.
# default: current working directory
baseDir = "."

# Inline header template.
# Either inlineHeader or headerPath should be configured, and inlineHeader is prioritized.
inlineHeader = "..."

# Path to the header template file.
# Either inlineHeader or headerPath should be configured, and inlineHeader is prioritized.
# This path is resolved by the ResourceFinder. Check ResourceFinder for the concrete strategy.
# The header template file is skipped on any execution.
headerPath = "path/to/header.txt"

# On enabled, check the license header matches exactly with whitespace.
# Otherwise, strip the header in one line and check.
# default: true
strictCheck = true

# Whether you use the default excludes. Check Default.EXCLUDES for the completed list.
# To suppress part of excludes in the list, declare exact the same pattern in `includes` list.
# default: true
useDefaultExcludes = true

# The supported patterns of includes and excludes follow gitignore pattern format, plus that:
# 1. `includes` does not support `!`
# 2. backslash does not escape letter
# 3. whitespaces and `#` are normal since we configure line by line
# See also https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore#_pattern_format

# Patterns of path to be included on execution.
# default: all the files under `baseDir`.
includes = ["..."]

# Patterns of path to be excluded on execution. A leading bang (!) indicates an invert exclude rule.
# default: empty; if useDefaultExcludes is true, append default excludes.
excludes = ["..."]

# Keywords that should occur in the header, case-insensitive.
# default: ["copyright"]
keywords = ["copyright", "..."]

# Whether you use the default mapping. Check DocumentType.defaultMapping() for the completed list.
# default: true
useDefaultMapping = true

# Paths to additional header style files. The model of user-defined header style can be found below.
# default: empty
additionalHeaders = ["..."]

# Mapping rules (repeated).
#
# The key of a mapping rule is a header style type (case-insensitive).
#
# Available header style types consist of those defined at `HeaderType` and user-defined ones in `additionalHeaders`.
# The name of header style type is case-insensitive.
#
# If useDefaultMapping is true, the mapping rules defined here can override the default one.
[mapping.STYLE_NAME]
filenames = ["..."]  # e.g. "Dockerfile.native"
extensions = ["..."] # e.g. "cc"

# Properties to fulfill the template.
# For a defined key-value pair, you can use {{props["key"]}} in the header template, which will be
# substituted with the corresponding value.
[properties]
inceptionYear = 2023

# There are also preset attributes that can be used in the header template (no need to surround them with `props[]`).:
# * 'attrs.filename' is the current file name, like: pom.xml.
# * 'attrs.disk_file_created_year'

# Options to configure Git features.
[git]
# If enabled, do not process files that are ignored by Git; possible value: ['auto', 'enable', 'disable']
# 'auto' means this feature tries to be enabled with:
#   * gix - if `basedir` is in a Git repository.
#   * ignore crate's gitignore rules - if `basedir` is not in a Git repository.
# 'enable' means always enabled with gix; failed if it is impossible.
# default: 'auto'
ignore = 'auto'
# If enabled, populate file attrs determinated by Git; possible value: ['auto', 'enable', 'disable']
# Attributes contains:
#   * 'attrs.git_file_created_year'
#   * 'attrs.git_file_modified_year'
# 'auto' means this feature tries to be enabled with:
#   * gix - if `basedir` is in a Git repository.
# 'enable' means always enabled with gix; failed if it is impossible.
# default: 'disable'
attrs = 'disable'

Header style file

# [REQUIRED] The name of this header.
[my_header_style]

# The first fixed line of this header. Default to none.
firstLine = "..."

# The last fixed line of this header. Default to none.
endLine = "..."

# The characters to prepend before each license header lines. Default to empty.
beforeEachLine = "..."

# The characters to append after each license header lines. Default to empty.
afterEachLine = "..."

# Only for multi-line comments: specify if blank lines are allowed.
# Default to false because most of the time, a header has some characters on each line.
allowBlankLines = false

# Specify whether this is a multi-line comment style or not.
#
# A multi-line comment style is equivalent to what we have in Java, where a first line and line will delimit
# a whole multi-line comment section.
#
# A style that is not multi-line is usually repeating in each line the characters before and after each line
# to delimit a one-line comment.
#
# Defaulut to true.
multipleLines = true

# Only for non multi-line comments: specify if some spaces should be added after the header line and before
# the `afterEachLine` characters so that all the lines are aligned.
#
# Default to false.
padLines = false

# A regex to define a first line in a file that should be skipped and kept untouched, like the XML declaration
# at the top of XML documents.
#
# Default to none.
skipLinePattern = "..."

# [REQUIRED] The regex used to detect the start of a header section or line.
firstLineDetectionPattern = "..."

# [REQUIRED] The regex used to detect the end of a header section or line.
lastLineDetectionPattern = "..."

License

Apache License 2.0

History

This software is originally from license-maven-plugin, with an initial motivation to bring it beyond a Maven plugin. The core abstractions like Document, Header, and HeaderParser are originally copied from the license-maven-plugin sources under the terms of Apache License 2.0.

Later, when I started focusing on the Docker image's size and integration with Git, I found that Rust is better than Java (GraalVM Native Image) for this purpose. So, I rewrote the core logic in Rust while keeping a slim image. (The old Java implementation is achieved at the archive-native-image branch)