grasp

Grep Clojure code using clojure.spec regexes. Inspired by grape.

Why

This tool allows you to find patterns in Clojure code. I use it as a research tool for sci, clj-kondo or Clojure tickets.

API

The grasp.api namespace currently exposes:

• (grasp path-or-paths spec): returns matched sexprs in path or paths for spec. Accept source file, directory, jar file or classpath as string as well as a collection of strings for passing multiple paths. In case of a directory, it will be scanned recursively for source files ending with .clj, .cljs or .cljc.
• (grasp-string string spec): returns matched sexprs in string for spec.
• resolve-symbol: returns the resolved symbol for a symbol, taking into account aliases and refers. You can also use rsym to create a spec that matches a fully-qualified, resolved symbol.
• unwrap: see Finding keywords.
• cat, or, seq, vec: see Convenience macros.
• *, ?, +: aliases for (s/* any?), etc.

Status

Very alpha. API will almost certainly change.

Example usage

Assuming you have the following requires:

(require '[clojure.java.io :as io]
         '[clojure.pprint :as pprint]
         '[clojure.string :as str]
         '[clojure.spec.alpha :as s]
         '[grasp.api :as g])

Find reify usages

Find reify usage with more than one interface:

(def clojure-core (slurp (io/resource "clojure/core.clj")))

(s/def ::clause (s/cat :sym symbol? :lists (s/+ list?)))

(s/def ::reify
  (s/cat :reify #{'reify}
         :clauses (s/cat :clause ::clause :clauses (s/+ ::clause))))

(def matches (g/grasp-string clojure-core ::reify))

(doseq [m matches]
  (prn (meta m))
  (pprint/pprint m)
  (println))

This outputs:

{:line 6974, :column 5, :end-line 6988, :end-column 56}
(reify
 clojure.lang.IDeref
 (deref [_] (deref-future fut))
 clojure.lang.IBlockingDeref
 (deref
  [_ timeout-ms timeout-val]
  (deref-future fut timeout-ms timeout-val))
 ...)

{:line 7107, :column 5, :end-line 7125, :end-column 16}
(reify
 clojure.lang.IDeref
 ...)

(output abbreviated for readability)

Find usages based on resolved symbol

Find all usages of clojure.set/difference:

(defn table-row [sexpr]
  (-> (meta sexpr)
      (select-keys [:url :line :column])
      (assoc :sexpr sexpr)))

(->>
   (g/grasp "/Users/borkdude/git/clojure/src"
            ;; Alt 1: using rsym:
            (g/rsym 'clojure.set/difference)
            ;; Alt 2: do it manually:
            #_(fn [sym]
              (when (symbol? sym)
                (= 'clojure.set/difference (g/resolve-symbol sym)))))
   (map table-row)
   pprint/print-table)

This outputs:

|                                                         :url | :line | :column |         :sexpr |
|--------------------------------------------------------------+-------+---------+----------------|
|     file:/Users/borkdude/git/clojure/src/clj/clojure/set.clj |    49 |       7 |     difference |
|     file:/Users/borkdude/git/clojure/src/clj/clojure/set.clj |    62 |      14 |     difference |
|     file:/Users/borkdude/git/clojure/src/clj/clojure/set.clj |   172 |       2 |     difference |
|    file:/Users/borkdude/git/clojure/src/clj/clojure/data.clj |   112 |      19 | set/difference |
|    file:/Users/borkdude/git/clojure/src/clj/clojure/data.clj |   113 |      19 | set/difference |
| file:/Users/borkdude/git/clojure/src/clj/clojure/reflect.clj |   107 |      37 | set/difference |

Find a function call

Find all calls to clojure.core/map that take 1 argument:

(g/grasp-string "(comment (map identity))" (g/seq (g/rsym 'clojure.core/map) any?))
; => [(map identity)]

Grasp a classpath

Grasp the entire classpath for usage of frequencies:

(->> (grasp (System/getProperty "java.class.path") #{'frequencies})
     (take 2)
     (map (comp #(select-keys % [:url :line]) meta)))

Output:

({:url "file:/Users/borkdude/.gitlibs/libs/borkdude/sci/cb96d7fb2a37a7c21c78fc145948d6867c30936a/src/sci/impl/namespaces.cljc", :line 815}
 {:url "file:/Users/borkdude/.gitlibs/libs/borkdude/sci/cb96d7fb2a37a7c21c78fc145948d6867c30936a/src/sci/impl/namespaces.cljc", :line 815})

Finding keywords

When searching for keywords you will run into the problem that they do not have location information because they can't carry metadata. To solve this problem, grasp lets you wrap non-metadata supporting forms in a container. Grasp exposes the unwrap function to get hold of the form, while you can access the location of that form using the container's metadata. Say we would like to find all occurrences of :my.cljs.app.subs/my-data in this example:

/tmp/code.clj:

(ns my.cljs.app.views
  (:require [my.cljs.app.subs :as subs]
            [re-frame.core :refer [subscribe]]))

(subscribe [::subs/my-data])
(subscribe [:my.cljs.app.subs/my-data])

We can find them like this:

(s/def ::subscription (fn [x] (= :my.cljs.app.subs/my-data (unwrap x))))

(def matches
  (grasp "/tmp/code.clj" ::subscription {:wrap true}))

(run! prn (map meta matches))

Note that you explicitly have to provide :wrap true to make grasp wrap keywords.

The output:

{:line 5, :column 13, :end-line 5, :end-column 27, :url "file:/tmp/code.clj"}
{:line 6, :column 13, :end-line 6, :end-column 38, :url "file:/tmp/code.clj"}

Matching on source string

Using the option :source true, grasp will attach the source string as metadata on parsed s-expressions. This can be used to match on things like function literals like #(foo %) or keywords like ::foo. For example: we can grasp for function literals that have more than one argument:

(s/def ::fn-literal
  (fn [x] (and (seq? x) (= 'fn* (first x)) (> (count (second x)) 1)
               (some-> x meta :source (str/starts-with? "#("))))))

(def match (first (g/grasp-string "#(+ % %2)" ::fn-literal {:source true})))

(prn [match (meta match)])

Output:

[(fn* [%1 %2] (+ %1 %2)) {:source "#(+ % %2)", :line 1, :column 1, :end-line 1, :end-column 10}]

More examples

More examples in examples.

Convenience macros

Grasp exposes the cat, seq, vec and or convenience macros.

All of these macros support passing in a single quoted value for matching a literal thing 'foo for matching that symbol instead of #{'foo}. Additionally, they let you write specs without names for each parsed item: (g/cat 'foo int?) instead of (s/cat :s #{'foo} :i int?). The seq and vec macros are like the cat macro but additionally check for seq? and vector? respectively.

Binary

A CLI binary can be obtained from the builds. Linux and macOS users should go to CircleCI and Windows users should go to Appveyor.

It can be invoked like this:

$ ./grasp ~/git/spec.alpha/src -e "(set-opts! {:wrap true}) (fn [k] (= :clojure.spec.alpha/invalid (unwrap k)))" | grep file | wc -l
      68

The binary supports the following options:

-p, --path: path
-e, --expr: spec from expr
-f, --file: spec from file

The path and spec may also be provided without flags, like grasp <path> <spec>. Use - for grasping from stdin.

The evaluated code from -e or -f may return a spec (or spec keyword) or call set-opts! with a map that contains :spec and other options. E.g.:

(require '[clojure.spec.alpha :as s])
(require '[grasp.api :as g])

(s/def ::spec (fn [x] (= :clojure.spec.alpha/invalid (g/unwrap x))))

(g/set-opts! {:spec ::spec :wrap true})

If nil is returned from the evaluated code and set-opts! wasn't called, the CLI assumes that code will handle the results and no printing will be done. These programs may call g/grasp and pass g/*path* which contains the path that was passed to the CLI.

Full example:

fn_literal.clj:

(require '[clojure.pprint :as pprint]
         '[clojure.spec.alpha :as s]
         '[clojure.string :as str]
         '[grasp.api :as g])

(s/def ::fn-literal
  (fn [x] (and (seq? x) (= 'fn* (first x)) (> (count (second x)) 1)
               (some-> x meta :source (str/starts-with? "#(")))))

(let [matches (g/grasp g/*path* ::fn-literal {:source true})
      rows (map (fn [match]
                  (let [m (meta match)]
                    {:source (:source m)
                     :match match}))
                matches)]
  (pprint/print-table rows))

$ grasp - fn_literal.clj <<< "#(foo %1 %2)"

|  :url | :line |      :source |                    :match |
|-------+-------+--------------+---------------------------|
| stdin |     1 | #(foo %1 %2) | (fn* [%1 %2] (foo %1 %2)) |

Pattern matching

The matched s-expressions can be conformed and then pattern-matched using libraries like meander.

Revisiting the ::reify spec which finds reify usage with more than one interface:

(s/def ::clause (s/cat :sym symbol? :lists (s/+ list?)))

(s/def ::reify
  (s/cat :reify #{'reify}
         :clauses (s/cat :clause ::clause :clauses (s/+ ::clause))))

(def clojure-core (slurp (io/resource "clojure/core.clj")))

(def matches (g/grasp-string clojure-core ::reify))

(def conformed (map #(s/conform ::reify %) matches))

Matchete

(require '[matchete.core :as mc])

(def pattern
  {:clauses
   {:clause {:sym '!interface}
    :clauses (mc/each {:sym '!interface})}})

(first (mc/matches pattern (first conformed)))

Returns:

{!interface [clojure.lang.IDeref clojure.lang.IBlockingDeref clojure.lang.IPending java.util.concurrent.Future]}

Meander

(require '[meander.epsilon :as m])

(m/find
  (first conformed)
  {:clauses {:clause {:sym !interface} :clauses [{:sym !interface} ...]}}
  !interface)

Returns:

[clojure.lang.IDeref clojure.lang.IBlockingDeref clojure.lang.IPending java.util.concurrent.Future]

Build

Run script/compile to compile the grasp binary using GraalVM

License

Copyright © 2020 Michiel Borkent

Distributed under the EPL License. See LICENSE.