Tool Shed

A collection of utility scripts and rake tasks to help working with ActionScript and Flex projects. They are under development, so don't expect too much reliability.

All tools have help available on the command line, to view use: as-tool-name -h

as-docp

The as-docp tool can be used to generate a flex-config.xml file from package level ASDoc files. This can then be used by the asdoc tool when generating ASDocs for your project. To document a package create a single file with a .asdoc suffix to contain your ASDoc comments.

as-docp -s src -o tmp/asdocp-config.xml

as-manifest

Scans a specified source tree for ActionScript and MXML files and for each one found creates a manifest entry. When complete writes the results to disk.

as-manifest
as-manifest -s source/main -o project-manifest.xml
as-manifest -f 'org.helvector'

as-class-vacuum

Compares a mxmlc generated link-report.xml against a manifest.xml file to identify files that are in a project source tree but are no longer compiled into the application.

as-class-vacuum -s src/main -o report/vacuum/class.xml -l report/link/app-link-report.xml -m manifest.xml

To generate a link report via mxmlc use -link-report=report.xml in the compiler arguments.

as-style-vacuum

Loads all styles defined in css files (mxml isn't included) and identifies styles that are not referenced in the source tree.

as-style-vacuum -c source/assets -s source/main -o report/vacuum/style.xml

as-asset-vacuum

This script scans a source tree for assets of types jpg, jpeg, png, otf, ttf, swf, svg, mp3, gif then searches all ActionScript, CSS and MXML files to identify which assets are not referenced in the source files.

as-asset-vacuum
as-asset-vacuum -s source/main -o report/vacuum/asset.xml

as-concrete

Takes an Interface and generates a concrete class from it. Output is directed to standard out. Using the --type argument will change the format, by default an ActionScript class is generated, using -t imp only outputs the accessor and method implementations, and -t mock4as will generate a Mock4AS class.

as-concrete -i IShed.as
as-concrete -i IShed.as -t mock4as
as-concrete -i IShed.as -t class
as-concrete -i IShed.as -t imp

Rake tasks

Insert Copyright headers into all of your ActionScript source files

headers do |t|
  t.copyright = 'Copyright MMXI Big Corporation. All Rights Reserved.'
end

To generate a manifest.xml file for use when declaring namespaces to the flex compilers

manifest do |t|
  t.output = 'src/Desktop-manifest.xml'
  t.filter = 'bbc.ipd.view.components'
end

To make a version file from a template which contains the keys @major@, @minor@, @patch@, @revision@

version do |t|
  t.template = 'etc/templates/Version.as'
  t.major, t.minor, t.patch = 5, 0, 0
  t.output = 'src/org/app/Version.as'
end

Install

gem install tool-shed

License

Released under the MIT License. Please see the accompanying LICENSE document for details.