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A pluggable linter and fixer to enforce Protocol Buffer style and conventions.

protolint

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protolint is the pluggable linting/fixing utility for Protocol Buffer files (proto2+proto3):

  • Runs fast because this works without compiler.
  • Easy to follow the official style guide. The rules and the style guide correspond to each other exactly.
    • Fixer automatically fixes all the possible official style guide violations.
  • Allows to disable rules with a comment in a Protocol Buffer file.
    • It is useful for projects which must keep API compatibility while enforce the style guide as much as possible.
    • Some rules can be automatically disabled by inserting comments to the spotted violations.
  • Loads plugins to contain your custom lint rules.
  • Undergone testing for all rules.
  • Many integration supports.
    • protoc plugin
    • Editor integration
    • GitHub Action
    • CI Integration

Demo

For example, vim-protolint works like the following.

demo

Installation

Via Homebrew

protolint can be installed for Mac or Linux using Homebrew via the yoheimuta/protolint tap.

brew tap yoheimuta/protolint
brew install protolint

Since homebrew-core includes protolint, you can also install it by just brew install protolint. This is the default tap that is installed by default. It's easier, but not maintained by the same author. To keep it updated, I recommend you run brew tap yoheimuta/protolint first.

Via GitHub Releases

You can also download a pre-built binary from this release page:

In the downloads section of each release, you can find pre-built binaries in .tar.gz packages.

Use the maintained Docker image

protolint ships a Docker image yoheimuta/protolint that allows you to use protolint as part of your Docker workflow.

❯❯❯ docker run --volume "$(pwd):/workspace" --workdir /workspace yoheimuta/protolint lint _example/proto
[_example/proto/invalidFileName.proto:1:1] File name should be lower_snake_case.proto.
[_example/proto/issue_88/oneof_options.proto:11:5] Found an incorrect indentation style "    ". "  " is correct.
[_example/proto/issue_88/oneof_options.proto:12:5] Found an incorrect indentation style "    ". "  " is correct.

From Source

The binary can be installed from source if Go is available. However, I recommend using one of the pre-built binaries instead because it doesn't include the version info.

go install github.com/yoheimuta/protolint/cmd/protolint@latest

Usage

protolint lint example.proto example2.proto # file mode, specify multiple specific files
protolint lint .                            # directory mode, search for all .proto files recursively
protolint .                                 # same as "protolint lint ."
protolint lint -config_path=path/to/your_protolint.yaml . # use path/to/your_protolint.yaml
protolint lint -config_dir_path=path/to .   # search path/to for .protolint.yaml
protolint lint -fix .                       # automatically fix some of the problems reported by some rules
protolint lint -fix -auto_disable=next .    # this is preferable when you want to fix problems while maintaining the compatibility. Automatically fix some problems and insert disable comments to the other problems. The available values are next and this.
protolint lint -auto_disable=next .         # automatically insert disable comments to the other problems. 
protolint lint -v .                         # with verbose output to investigate the parsing error
protolint lint -no-error-on-unmatched-pattern . # exits with success code even if no file is found (file & directory mode)
protolint lint -reporter junit .            # output results in JUnit XML format
protolint lint -output_file=path/to/out.txt # output results to path/to/out.txt
protolint lint -plugin ./my_custom_rule1 -plugin ./my_custom_rule2 .   # run custom lint rules.
protolint list                              # list all current lint rules being used
protolint version                           # print protolint version

protolint does not require configuration by default, for the majority of projects it should work out of the box.

Version Control Integration

protolint is available as a pre-commit hook. Add this to your .pre-commit-config.yaml in your repository to run protolint with Go:

repos:
  - repo: https://github.com/yoheimuta/protolint
    rev: <version> # Select a release here like v0.44.0
    hooks:
      - id: protolint

or alternatively use this to run protolint with Docker:

repos:
  - repo: https://github.com/yoheimuta/protolint
    rev: <version> # Select a release here like v0.44.0
    hooks:
      - id: protolint-docker

Editor Integration

Visual Studio Code

JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA, GoLand, WebStorm, PHPStorm, PyCharm...

Vim(ALE engine)

Vim(Syntastic)

GitHub Action

A GitHub Action to run protolint in your workflows

CI Integration

Jenkins Plugins

Use as a protoc plugin

protolint also maintains a binary protoc-gen-protolint that performs the lint functionality as a protoc plugin. See cmd/protoc-gen-protolint/README.md in detail.

This is useful in situations where you already have a protoc plugin workflow.

Call from Go code

You can also use protolint from Go code. See Go Documentation and lib/lint_test.go in detail.

args := []string{"-config_path", "path/to/your_protolint.yaml", "."}
var stdout bytes.Buffer
var stderr bytes.Buffer

err := lib.Lint(test.inputArgs, &stdout, &stderr)

Rules

See internal/addon/rules in detail.

The rule set follows:

  • Official Style Guide. This is enabled by default. Basically, these rules can fix the violations by appending -fix option.
  • Unofficial Style Guide. This is disabled by default. You can enable each rule with .protolint.yaml.

The -fix option on the command line can automatically fix all the problems reported by fixable rules. See Fixable columns below.

The -auto_disable option on the command line can automatically disable all the problems reported by auto-disable rules. This feature is helpful when fixing the existing violations breaks the compatibility. See AutoDisable columns below.

  • *1: These rules are not supposed to support AutoDisable because the fixes don't break their compatibilities. You should run the protolint with -fix.
Official Fixable AutoDisable ID Purpose
Yes βœ… βœ… ENUM_FIELD_NAMES_PREFIX Verifies that enum field names are prefixed with its ENUM_NAME_UPPER_SNAKE_CASE.
Yes βœ… βœ… ENUM_FIELD_NAMES_UPPER_SNAKE_CASE Verifies that all enum field names are CAPITALS_WITH_UNDERSCORES.
Yes βœ… βœ… ENUM_FIELD_NAMES_ZERO_VALUE_END_WITH Verifies that the zero value enum should have the suffix (e.g. "UNSPECIFIED", "INVALID"). The default is "UNSPECIFIED". You can configure the specific suffix with .protolint.yaml.
Yes βœ… βœ… ENUM_NAMES_UPPER_CAMEL_CASE Verifies that all enum names are CamelCase (with an initial capital).
Yes βœ… *1 FILE_NAMES_LOWER_SNAKE_CASE Verifies that all file names are lower_snake_case.proto. You can configure the excluded files with .protolint.yaml.
Yes βœ… βœ… FIELD_NAMES_LOWER_SNAKE_CASE Verifies that all field names are underscore_separated_names.
Yes βœ… *1 IMPORTS_SORTED Verifies that all imports are sorted.
Yes βœ… βœ… MESSAGE_NAMES_UPPER_CAMEL_CASE Verifies that all message names are CamelCase (with an initial capital).
Yes βœ… *1 ORDER Verifies that all files should be ordered in the specific manner.
Yes βœ… *1 PACKAGE_NAME_LOWER_CASE Verifies that the package name should only contain lowercase letters.
Yes βœ… βœ… RPC_NAMES_UPPER_CAMEL_CASE Verifies that all rpc names are CamelCase (with an initial capital).
Yes βœ… βœ… SERVICE_NAMES_UPPER_CAMEL_CASE Verifies that all service names are CamelCase (with an initial capital).
Yes βœ… βœ… REPEATED_FIELD_NAMES_PLURALIZED Verifies that repeated field names are pluralized names.
Yes βœ… *1 QUOTE_CONSISTENT Verifies that the use of quote for strings is consistent. The default is double quoted. You can configure the specific quote with .protolint.yaml.
Yes βœ… *1 INDENT Enforces a consistent indentation style. The default style is 2 spaces. Inserting appropriate new lines is also forced by default. You can configure the detail with .protolint.yaml.
Yes βœ… *1 PROTO3_FIELDS_AVOID_REQUIRED Verifies that all fields should avoid required for proto3.
Yes _ βœ… PROTO3_GROUPS_AVOID Verifies that all groups should be avoided for proto3.
Yes _ *1 MAX_LINE_LENGTH Enforces a maximum line length. The length of a line is defined as the number of Unicode characters in the line. The default is 80 characters. You can configure the detail with .protolint.yaml.
No _ - SERVICE_NAMES_END_WITH Enforces a consistent suffix for service names. You can configure the specific suffix with .protolint.yaml.
No _ - FIELD_NAMES_EXCLUDE_PREPOSITIONS Verifies that all field names don't include prepositions (e.g. "for", "during", "at"). You can configure the specific prepositions and excluded keywords with .protolint.yaml.
No _ - MESSAGE_NAMES_EXCLUDE_PREPOSITIONS Verifies that all message names don't include prepositions (e.g. "With", "For"). You can configure the specific prepositions and excluded keywords with .protolint.yaml.
No _ - RPC_NAMES_CASE Verifies that all rpc names conform to the specified convention. You need to configure the specific convention with .protolint.yaml.
No _ - MESSAGES_HAVE_COMMENT Verifies that all messages have a comment. You can configure to enforce Golang Style comments with .protolint.yaml.
No _ - SERVICES_HAVE_COMMENT Verifies that all services have a comment. You can configure to enforce Golang Style comments with .protolint.yaml.
No _ - RPCS_HAVE_COMMENT Verifies that all rps have a comment. You can configure to enforce Golang Style comments with .protolint.yaml.
No _ - FIELDS_HAVE_COMMENT Verifies that all fields have a comment. You can configure to enforce Golang Style comments with .protolint.yaml.
No _ - ENUMS_HAVE_COMMENT Verifies that all enums have a comment. You can configure to enforce Golang Style comments with .protolint.yaml.
No _ - ENUM_FIELDS_HAVE_COMMENT Verifies that all enum fields have a comment. You can configure to enforce Golang Style comments with .protolint.yaml.
No _ - FILE_HAS_COMMENT Verifies that a file starts with a doc comment.
No _ - SYNTAX_CONSISTENT Verifies that syntax is a specified version. The default is proto3. You can configure the version with .protolint.yaml.

I recommend that you add all_default: true in .protolint.yaml, because all linters above are automatically enabled so that you can always enjoy maximum benefits whenever protolint is updated.

Here are some examples that show good style enabled by default. - is a bad style, + is a good style:

ENUM_FIELD_NAMES_PREFIX

enum FooBar {
-  UNSPECIFIED = 0;
+  FOO_BAR_UNSPECIFIED = 0;
}

ENUM_FIELD_NAMES_UPPER_SNAKE_CASE

enum Foo {
-  firstValue = 0;
+  FIRST_VALUE = 0;
-  second_value = 1;
+  SECOND_VALUE = 1;
}

ENUM_FIELD_NAMES_ZERO_VALUE_END_WITH

enum Foo {
-  FOO_FIRST = 0;
+  FOO_UNSPECIFIED = 0;
}

ENUM_NAMES_UPPER_CAMEL_CASE

- enum foobar {
+ enum FooBar {
  FIRST_VALUE = 0;
  SECOND_VALUE = 1;
}

FIELD_NAMES_LOWER_SNAKE_CASE

message SongServerRequest {
-  required string SongName = 1;
+  required string song_name = 1;
}

IMPORTS_SORTED

- import public "new.proto";
+ import "myproject/other_protos.proto";
- import "myproject/other_protos.proto";
+ import public "new.proto";

import "google/protobuf/empty.proto";
import "google/protobuf/timestamp.proto";

MESSAGE_NAMES_UPPER_CAMEL_CASE

- message song_server_request {
+ message SongServerRequest {
  required string SongName = 1;
  required string song_name = 1;
}

ORDER

- option java_package = "com.example.foo";
- syntax = "proto3";
- package examplePb;
- message song_server_request { }
- import "other.proto";
+ syntax = "proto3";
+ package examplePb;
+ import "other.proto";
+ option java_package = "com.example.foo";
+ message song_server_request { }

PACKAGE_NAME_LOWER_CASE

- package myPackage
+ package my.package

RPC_NAMES_UPPER_CAMEL_CASE

service FooService {
-  rpc get_something(FooRequest) returns (FooResponse);
+  rpc GetSomething(FooRequest) returns (FooResponse);
}

RPC_NAMES_UPPER_CAMEL_CASE

- service foo_service {
+ service FooService {
  rpc get_something(FooRequest) returns (FooResponse);
  rpc GetSomething(FooRequest) returns (FooResponse);
}

REPEATED_FIELD_NAMES_PLURALIZED

-  repeated string song_name = 1;
+  repeated string song_names = 1;

INDENT

 enum enumAllowingAlias {
   UNKNOWN = 0;
-        option allow_alias = true;
+  option allow_alias = true;
   STARTED = 1;
-     RUNNING = 2 [(custom_option) = "hello world"];
+  RUNNING = 2 [(custom_option) = "hello world"];
- }
+}
-   message TestMessage { string test_field = 1; }
+ message TestMessage {
+  string test_field = 1;
+}

QUOTE_CONSISTENT

 option java_package = "com.example.foo";
- option go_package = 'example';
+ option go_package = "example";

Creating your custom rules

protolint is the pluggable linter so that you can freely create custom lint rules.

A complete sample project (aka plugin) is included in this repo under the _example/plugin directory.

Reporters

protolint comes with several built-in reporters(aka. formatters) to control the appearance of the linting results.

You can specify a reporter using the -reporter flag on the command line. For example, -reporter junit uses the junit reporter.

The built-in reporter options are:

  • plain (default)
  • junit
  • json
  • sarif
  • unix

Configuring

Disable rules in a Protocol Buffer file

Rules can be disabled with a comment inside a Protocol Buffer file with the following format. The rules will be disabled until the end of the file or until the linter sees a matching enable comment:

// protolint:disable <ruleID1> [<ruleID2> <ruleID3>...]
...
// protolint:enable <ruleID1> [<ruleID2> <ruleID3>...]

It's also possible to modify a disable command by appending :next or :this for only applying the command to this(current) or the next line respectively.

For example:

enum Foo {
  // protolint:disable:next ENUM_FIELD_NAMES_UPPER_SNAKE_CASE
  firstValue = 0;    // no error
  second_value = 1;  // protolint:disable:this ENUM_FIELD_NAMES_UPPER_SNAKE_CASE
  THIRD_VALUE = 2;   // spits out an error
}

Setting the command-line option -auto_disable to next or this inserts disable commands whenever spotting problems.

You can specify -fix option together. The rules supporting auto_disable suppress the violations instead of fixing them that cause a schema incompatibility.

Config file

protolint can operate using a config file named .protolint.yaml.

Refer to _example/config/.protolint.yaml for the config file specification.

protolint will automatically search a current working directory for the config file by default and successive parent directories all the way up to the root directory of the filesystem. And it can search the specified directory with -config_dir_path flag. It can also search the specified file with --config_path flag.

Exit codes

When linting files, protolint will exit with one of the following exit codes:

  • 0: Linting was successful and there are no linting errors.
  • 1: Linting was successful and there is at least one linting error.
  • 2: Linting was unsuccessful due to all other errors, such as parsing, internal, and runtime errors.

Motivation

There exists the similar protobuf linters as of 2018/12/20.

One is a plug-in for Google's Protocol Buffers compiler.

  • When you just want to lint the files, it may be tedious to create the compilation environment.
  • And it generally takes a lot of time to compile the files than to parse the files.

Other is a command line tool which also lints Protocol Buffer files.

  • While it has a lot of features other than lint, it seems cumbersome for users who just want the linter.
  • The lint rule slants towards to be opinionated.
  • Further more, the rule set and the official style guide don't correspond to each other exactly. It requires to understand both rules and the guide in detail, and then to combine the rules accurately.

Other tools

I wrote an article comparing various Protocol Buffer Linters, including protolint, on 2019/12/17.

Dependencies

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Acknowledgement

Thank you to the prototool package: https://github.com/uber/prototool

I referred to the package for the good proven design, interface and some source code.

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