Debugging

Deptrac provides a series of debug commands that help you identify issues in your config files. All commands output one issue per line and can therefore be easily combined with other tools like wc or grep.

debug:layer

With the debug:layer-command you can list all tokens which are matched in a specific layer. This command only shows tokens that would be emitted by your analyser configuration.

$ php deptrac.phar debug:layer --config-file=deptrac.config.php Time

 ---------------------------------------------------- ------------
  Time                                                 Token Type
 ---------------------------------------------------- ------------
  /src/Supportive/Time/Period.php                      file
  /src/Supportive/Time/StartedPeriod.php               file
  /src/Supportive/Time/Stopwatch.php                   file
  /src/Supportive/Time/StopwatchException.php          file
  Qossmic\Deptrac\Supportive\Time\Period               class-like
  Qossmic\Deptrac\Supportive\Time\StartedPeriod        class-like
  Qossmic\Deptrac\Supportive\Time\Stopwatch            class-like
  Qossmic\Deptrac\Supportive\Time\StopwatchException   class-like
 ---------------------------------------------------- ------------

debug:token

The debug:token (previously debug:class-like)-command will let you know which layers a specified token belongs to. Since you can specify the token type, this commands ignores your analyser configuration for emitted token types.

$ php deptrac.phar debug:token --config-file=examples/DirectoryLayer.depfile.yaml 'examples\Layer1\AnotherClassLikeAController' class-like

Controller
Layer1

debug:unassigned

With the debug:unassigned-command you list all tokens in your path that are not assigned to any layer. This is useful to test that your collector configuration for layers is correct. This command only shows tokens that would be emitted by your analyser configuration.

$ php deptrac.phar debug:unassigned --config-file=examples/DirectoryLayer.depfile.yaml

examples\Layer1\AnotherClassLikeAController
examples\Layer1\SomeClass
examples\Layer1\SomeClass2

This command exist with the return code 2 when it ran successfully, but there were some tokens in the output. You can use this information in your CI pipelines.

debug:dependencies

With the debug:dependencies-command you can see all dependencies of your layer. You can optionally specify a target layer to get only dependencies from one layer to the other:

$ php deptrac.phar debug:dependencies debug:dependencies Ast InputCollector

  Qossmic\Deptrac\Core\Ast\AstMapExtractor depends on Qossmic\Deptrac\Core\InputCollector\InputCollectorInterface (InputCollector)
  .../deptrac/src/Core/Ast/AstMapExtractor.php:15
  Qossmic\Deptrac\Core\Ast\AstMapExtractor depends on Qossmic\Deptrac\Core\InputCollector\InputException (InputCollector)
  .../deptrac/src/Core/Ast/AstMapExtractor.php:28
  Qossmic\Deptrac\Core\Ast\AstException depends on Qossmic\Deptrac\Core\InputCollector\InputException (InputCollector)
  .../deptrac/src/Core/Ast/AstException.php:13

debug:unused

With the debug:unused-command you list all the rulesets that are not being used (i.e. there are no dependencies being allowed by this ruleset).

You can optionally specify a limit (--limit=<int>) of how many times can be the ruleset used to be considered unused. This is useful if you want to find dependencies that are barely used and may be a prime candidate to get rid of.

$ php deptrac.phar debug:unused --limit=10

  Analyser layer is dependent Layer layer 5 times
  Ast layer is dependent File layer 9 times
  Ast layer is dependent InputCollector layer 3 times
  Console layer is dependent OutputFormatter layer 4 times
  Console layer is dependent DependencyInjection layer 2 times
  Console layer is dependent File layer 5 times
  InputCollector layer is dependent File layer 3 times
  OutputFormatter layer is dependent DependencyInjection layer 1 times

changed-files

[!CAUTION] This command in experimental and is not covered by the BC policy.

This command list the layers corresponding to the passed files. Optionally it can also list all the layers that depend on those layers.

$ php deptrac.phar changed-files --with-dependencies src/Supportive/File/FileReader.php

  File
  Console;Ast;InputCollector;Analyser;Dependency;Layer

For a discussion as to why that information might be useful, refer to the 90DaysOfDevOps Presentation.