Simple license header checker and formatter, in multiple distribution forms.
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.
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@v3
Native Image powered image (28MB):
docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/github/workspace ghcr.io/korandoru/hawkeye-native check
Eclipse Temurin JRE based image (266MB):
docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/github/workspace ghcr.io/korandoru/hawkeye check
The executable JAR requires a preinstalled JRE environment (version >= 17). You can find the binaries at:
- https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/korandoru/hawkeye/hawkeye-cli/ for 2.x or later;
- https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/korandoru/hawkeye/commandline/ for 1.x.
This steps requires JDK 17. Higher versions may work.
# Build
./mvnw clean install -DskipTests
# Run
./hawkeye-cli/target/hawkeye.jar -h
Build Docker image:
docker build . -t hawkeye
This steps requires GraalVM 22.3.0. Higher versions may work.
# Build with GraalVM
./mvnw clean package -DskipTests -Pnative
# Run
./hawkeye-native/target/hawkeye-native -h
Build Docker image:
docker build . -t hawkeye -f Dockerfile.native
# 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 or not 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 a 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 or not 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 ${key} in the header template, which will be substituted
# with the corresponding value. Builtin properties have a 'builtin.' prefix.
#
# Builtin properties:
# 1. builtin.filename is the current file name, like: pom.xml.
# 2. builtin.thisYear is the current year, like: 2023.
[properties]
inceptionYear = 2023
# [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 = "..."
This software is derived from license-maven-plugin, with an initial motivation to bring it beyond a Maven plugin. The core abstractions like Document
, Header
, and HeaderResource
are originally copied from the license-maven-plugin sources under the terms of Apache License 2.0.