require-file-overview.md

require-file-overview

• Options
  • tags
• Context and settings
• Failing examples
• Passing examples

Checks that:

1. All files have a @file, @fileoverview, or @overview tag.
2. Duplicate file overview tags within a given file will be reported
3. File overview tags will be reported which are not, as per the docs, "at the beginning of the file"–where beginning of the file is interpreted in this rule as being when the overview tag is not preceded by anything other than a comment.

Options

tags

The keys of this object are tag names, and the values are configuration objects indicating what will be checked for these whole-file tags.

Each configuration object has the following boolean keys (which default to false when this option is supplied): mustExist, preventDuplicates, initialCommentsOnly. These correspond to the three items above.

When no tags is present, the default is:

{
  "file": {
    "initialCommentsOnly": true,
    "mustExist": true,
    "preventDuplicates": true,
  }
}

You can add additional tag names and/or override file if you supply this option, e.g., in place of or in addition to file, giving other potential file global tags like @license, @copyright, @author, @module or @exports, optionally restricting them to a single use or preventing them from being preceded by anything besides comments.

For example:

{
  "license": {
    "mustExist": true,
    "preventDuplicates": true,
  }
}

This would require one and only one @license in the file, though because initialCommentsOnly is absent and defaults to false, the @license can be anywhere.

In the case of @license, you can use this rule along with the check-values rule (with its allowedLicenses or licensePattern options), to enforce a license whitelist be present on every JS file.

Note that if you choose to use preventDuplicates with license, you still have a way to allow multiple licenses for the whole page by using the SPDX "AND" expression, e.g., @license (MIT AND GPL-3.0).

Note that the tag names are the main jsdoc tag name, so you should use file in this configuration object regardless of whether you have configured fileoverview instead of file on tagNamePreference (i.e., fileoverview will be checked, but you must use file on the configuration object).

Context and settings

Context	Everywhere
Tags	file; others when tags set
Aliases	fileoverview, overview
Recommended	false
Options	tags

Failing examples

The following patterns are considered problems:

// Message: Missing @file


// "jsdoc/require-file-overview": ["error"|"warn", {"tags":{"file":{"initialCommentsOnly":true,"mustExist":true,"preventDuplicates":true}}}]
// Message: Missing @file


// "jsdoc/require-file-overview": ["error"|"warn", {"tags":{"file":{"mustExist":true}}}]
// Message: Missing @file


// "jsdoc/require-file-overview": ["error"|"warn", {"tags":{"author":{"initialCommentsOnly":false,"mustExist":true,"preventDuplicates":false}}}]
// Message: Missing @author

/**
 *
 */
// Message: Missing @file

/**
 *
 */
function quux () {}
// Message: Missing @file

/**
 *
 */
function quux () {}
// Settings: {"jsdoc":{"tagNamePreference":{"file":"fileoverview"}}}
// Message: Missing @fileoverview

/**
 *
 */
function quux () {}
// Settings: {"jsdoc":{"tagNamePreference":{"file":"overview"}}}
// Message: Missing @overview

/**
 *
 */
function quux () {}
// Settings: {"jsdoc":{"tagNamePreference":{"file":false}}}
// Message: `settings.jsdoc.tagNamePreference` cannot block @file for the `require-file-overview` rule

/**
 *
 */
function quux () {}
// Settings: {"jsdoc":{"tagNamePreference":{"file":false}}}
// "jsdoc/require-file-overview": ["error"|"warn", {"tags":{"file":{"initialCommentsOnly":false,"mustExist":true,"preventDuplicates":false}}}]
// Message: `settings.jsdoc.tagNamePreference` cannot block @file for the `require-file-overview` rule

/**
 *
 */
function quux () {}
// Settings: {"jsdoc":{"tagNamePreference":{"file":{"message":"Don't use file"}}}}
// Message: `settings.jsdoc.tagNamePreference` cannot block @file for the `require-file-overview` rule

/**
 * @param a
 */
function quux (a) {}
// Message: Missing @file

/**
 * @param a
 */
function quux (a) {}

/**
 * @param b
 */
function bar (b) {}
// Message: Missing @file

/**
 * @file
 */

 /**
  * @file
  */
// Message: Duplicate @file

/**
 * @copyright
 */

 /**
  * @copyright
  */
// "jsdoc/require-file-overview": ["error"|"warn", {"tags":{"copyright":{"initialCommentsOnly":false,"mustExist":false,"preventDuplicates":true}}}]
// Message: Duplicate @copyright

function quux () {
}
/**
 * @file
 */
// Message: @file should be at the beginning of the file

function quux () {
}
/**
 * @license
 */
// "jsdoc/require-file-overview": ["error"|"warn", {"tags":{"license":{"initialCommentsOnly":true,"mustExist":false,"preventDuplicates":false}}}]
// Message: @license should be at the beginning of the file

function quux () {
}
/**
 * @license
 */
// "jsdoc/require-file-overview": ["error"|"warn", {"tags":{"license":{"initialCommentsOnly":true}}}]
// Message: @license should be at the beginning of the file

/**
 * @file
 */

/**
 * @file
 */
// "jsdoc/require-file-overview": ["error"|"warn", {"tags":{"file":{"initialCommentsOnly":true,"preventDuplicates":true}}}]
// Message: Duplicate @file

/**
 *
 */
function quux () {}
// Settings: {"jsdoc":{"tagNamePreference":{"file":{"replacement":"fileoverview"}}}}
// Message: Missing @fileoverview

Passing examples

The following patterns are not considered problems:

/**
 * @file
 */

/**
 * @file
 */

/**
 * @file
 */
// "jsdoc/require-file-overview": ["error"|"warn", {"tags":{"license":{"initialCommentsOnly":true,"preventDuplicates":true}}}]

// Ok preceded by comment
/**
 * @file
 */

/**
 * @fileoverview
 */
// Settings: {"jsdoc":{"tagNamePreference":{"file":"fileoverview"}}}

/**
 * @overview
 */
// Settings: {"jsdoc":{"tagNamePreference":{"file":"overview"}}}

/**
 * @file Description of file
 */

/**
 * @file Description of file
 */
function quux () {
}

/**
 *
 */

function quux () {
}
/**
 *
 */
// "jsdoc/require-file-overview": ["error"|"warn", {"tags":{"license":{"initialCommentsOnly":true,"mustExist":false,"preventDuplicates":false}}}]

function quux () {
}
/**
 *
 */
// "jsdoc/require-file-overview": ["error"|"warn", {"tags":{"license":{"initialCommentsOnly":false,"mustExist":false,"preventDuplicates":false}}}]

function quux () {
}
/**
 *
 */
// "jsdoc/require-file-overview": ["error"|"warn", {"tags":{"license":{"initialCommentsOnly":false,"mustExist":false,"preventDuplicates":true}}}]

/**
 * @license MIT
 */

 var a

 /**
  * @type {Array}
  */
// "jsdoc/require-file-overview": ["error"|"warn", {"tags":{"license":{"initialCommentsOnly":true,"mustExist":false,"preventDuplicates":false}}}]