xcbeautify

xcbeautify is a little beautifier tool for xcodebuild.

Similar to xcpretty, but faster.

Features

2x faster than xcpretty.
Human-friendly and colored output.
Supports the new build system's output.
Supports Xcode's parallel testing output.
Supports formatting Swift Package Manager output.
Supports formatting Bazel output.
Supports generating JUnit reports.
Supports macOS & Linux.
Written in Swift: xcbeautify compiles to a static binary which you can bring anywhere. This also means less Ruby-dependant in your development environment and CI.

Fun fact

xcbeautify uses itself to format its CI build logs.

Installation

If you use macOS 10.14.3 or earlier, install Swift 5 Runtime Support for Command Line Tools first:

brew cask install thii/swift-runtime/swift-runtime

Homebrew

brew install xcbeautify

Mint

mint install tuist/xcbeautify

CocoaPods

pod 'xcbeautify'

The xcbeautify binary will be installed at Pods/xcbeautify/xcbeautify

Swift Package Manager

Create a directory in the same location as the xcodeproj file, for example BuildTools.
In that directory, create a Package.swift file with the following contents.
In addition, add an empty file named Empty.swift to the same location.

// swift-tools-version: 5.6
import PackageDescription

let package = Package(
    name: "BuildTools",
    platforms: [.macOS(.v10_11)],
    dependencies: [
      .package(url: "https://github.com/tuist/xcbeautify", from: "0.13.0"),
    ],
    targets: [
      .target(name: "BuildTools", path: "")
    ]
)

Enter this command to execute.

swift run -c release --package-path ./BuildTools xcbeautify

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/tuist/xcbeautify.git
cd xcbeautify
make install

Usage

xcodebuild [flags] | xcbeautify

If you want xcbeautify to exit with the same status code as xcodebuild (e.g. on a CI):

set -o pipefail && xcodebuild [flags] | xcbeautify

For parallel and concurrent destination testing, it helps to use unbuffered I/O for stdout and to redirect stderr to stdout.

NSUnbufferedIO=YES xcodebuild [flags] 2>&1 | xcbeautify

swift test [flags] 2>&1 | xcbeautify

Parse Bazel's building and testing output:

set -o pipefail && bazel build //path/to/package:target 2>&1 | xcbeautify

set -o pipefail && bazel test //path/to/package:target 2>&1 | xcbeautify

Future work

Write more tests

Development

Generate Xcode project:

make xcode

Build with Bazel:

bazel build //Sources/xcbeautify

Release a new version, e.g. x.y.z:

make release version=x.y.z

Contributing

Please send a PR!

License

MIT

clayellis/xcbeautify