sbt-header

sbt-header is an sbt plugin for creating or updating file headers, e.g. copyright headers.

Requirements

• Java 7 or higher
• sbt 0.13.8 or higher

Configuration

In order to add the sbt-header plugin to your build, add the following line to project/plugins.sbt:

addSbtPlugin("de.heikoseeberger" % "sbt-header" % "1.5.1")

If your build uses an auto plugin for common settings, make sure to add HeaderPlugin to requires:

import de.heikoseeberger.sbtheader.HeaderPlugin

object Build extends AutoPlugin {
  override def requires = ... && HeaderPlugin
  ...
}

You have to define which source or resource files should be considered by sbt-header and if so, how the headers should look like. sbt-header uses a mapping from file extension to header pattern and text for that purpose, specified with the headers setting. Here's an example:

import de.heikoseeberger.sbtheader.HeaderPattern

headers := Map(
  "scala" -> (
    HeaderPattern.cStyleBlockComment,
    """|/*
       | * Copyright 2015 Heiko Seeberger
       | *
       | * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
       | * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
       | * You may obtain a copy of the License at
       | *
       | *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
       | *
       | * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
       | * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
       | * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
       | * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
       | * limitations under the License.
       | */
       |
       |""".stripMargin
  )
)

The most common licenses have been pre-canned in License:

• Apache License, Version 2.0
• MIT License
• BSD 2 Clause and 3 Clause License
• GNU General Public License v3
• GNU Lesser General Public License v3

They can be added as follows:

import de.heikoseeberger.sbtheader.license.Apache2_0

headers := Map(
  "scala" -> Apache2_0("2015", "Heiko Seeberger"),
  "conf" -> Apache2_0("2015", "Heiko Seeberger", "#")
)

The built-in licenses support three comment styles:

• C style block comments (default)
• C++ style line comments (commentStyle = "//")
• Hash line comments (commentStyle = "#")

The CommentStyleMapping object in HeaderPlugin provides default mappings for common file types, so that they don't have to be configured manually:

import de.heikoseeberger.sbtheader.license.Apache2_0
import de.heikoseeberger.sbtheader.CommentStyleMapping._

headers := createFrom(Apache2_0, "2015", "Heiko Seeberger")

Notice that for the header pattern you have to provide a Regex which extracts the header and the body for a given file, i.e. one with two capturing groups. HeaderPattern defines three widely used patterns:

• cStyleBlockComment, e.g. for Scala and Java
• cppStyleLineComment, e.g. for C++ and Protobuf
• hashLineComment, e.g. for Bash, Python and HOCON

By the way, first lines starting with shebang are not touched by sbt-header.

You can also declare your own quite easily using the HeaderPattern.commentBetween and HeaderPattern.commentStartingWith functions.

By default sbt-header takes Compile and Test configurations into account. If you need more, just add them:

HeaderPlugin.settingsFor(It, MultiJvm)

Usage

In order to create or update file headers, execute the createHeaders task:

> createHeaders
[info] Headers created for 2 files:
[info]   /Users/heiko/projects/sbt-header/sbt-header-test/test.scala
[info]   /Users/heiko/projects/sbt-header/sbt-header-test/test2.scala

Automation

If you want to automate header creation/update on compile, enable the AutomateHeaderPlugin:

lazy val myProject = project
  .in(file("."))
  .enablePlugins(AutomateHeaderPlugin)

By default automation takes Compile and Test configurations into account. If you need more, just add them:

AutomateHeaderPlugin.automateFor(It, MultiJvm)

Contribution policy

Contributions via GitHub pull requests are gladly accepted from their original author. Along with any pull requests, please state that the contribution is your original work and that you license the work to the project under the project's open source license. Whether or not you state this explicitly, by submitting any copyrighted material via pull request, email, or other means you agree to license the material under the project's open source license and warrant that you have the legal authority to do so.

License

This code is open source software licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.