Applying global config to Buildifier

[Mark Holmes]

Currently, Buildifier will automatically sort arguments/lists in BUILD files alphabetically. This isn't great behaviour for me as the code I'm working on (unfortunately!) depends on arguments to be passed through in a particular order.

As per https://github.com/bazelbuild/buildtools/issues/125 this can be worked around using # do not sort, which is fine, but is there a way to specify this behaviour automatically for all instances of my_rule(). That is, any time I call my_rule(), Buildifier will know not to sort its args?

Thanks,

Mark

[Daniel Wagner-Hall]

This is configurable via https://github.com/bazelbuild/buildtools/blob/master/tables/tables.go 

The -tables and -add_tables flags allow you to override or merge this config using a JSON file.

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[Daniel Wagner-Hall]

I don't believe so, but it wouldn't be a tricky thing to add, and I suspect no one would object :)

On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 at 21:26, Mark Holmes <m.r.h...@live.com> wrote:

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the reply, this is exactly what I was after! Does Buildifier support any form of .rc file such that I could automatically add those flags implicitly whenever I call the tool?

Many thanks,

Mark

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From: Daniel Wagner-Hall <dawa...@gmail.com>
Sent: 15 September 2020 23:27
To: Mark Holmes <m.r.h...@live.com>
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Subject: Re: Applying global config to Buildifier