query format
Autoformat QL source code.
Who can use this feature?
CodeQL is available for the following repository types:
- Public repositories on GitHub.com, seeGitHub CodeQL Terms and Conditions
- Organization-owned repositories on GitHub Team withGitHub Code Security enabled
In this article
Note
This content describes the most recent release of the CodeQL CLI. For more information about this release, seehttps://github.com/github/codeql-cli-binaries/releases.
To see details of the options available for this command in an earlier release, run the command with the--help option in your terminal.
Synopsis
codeql query format [--output=<file>] [--in-place] [--backup=<ext>] <options>... -- <file>...
codeql query format [--output=<file>] [--in-place] [--backup=<ext>] <options>... -- <file>...Description
Autoformat QL source code.
Options
Primary Options
<file>...
One or more.ql or.qll source files to autoformat. A dash can bespecified to read from standard input.
-o, --output=<file>
Write the formatted QL code to this file instead of the standard outputstream. Must not be given if there is more than one input.
-i, --[no-]in-place
Overwrite each input file with a formatted version of its content.
--[no-]check-only
Instead of writing output, exit with status 1 if any input filesdiffer from their correct formatting. A message telling which filesdiffered will be printed to standard error unless you also give-qq.
-b, --backup=<ext>
When writing a file that already exists, rename the existing file to abackup by appending this extension to its name. If the backup filealready exists, it will be silently deleted.
--no-syntax-errors
If an input file is not syntactically correct QL, pretend that it isalready correctly formatted. (Usually such a file causes the command toterminate with an error message).
Common options
-h, --help
Show this help text.
-J=<opt>
[Advanced] Give option to the JVM running the command.
(Beware that options containing spaces will not be handled correctly.)
-v, --verbose
Incrementally increase the number of progress messages printed.
-q, --quiet
Incrementally decrease the number of progress messages printed.
--verbosity=<level>
[Advanced] Explicitly set the verbosity level to one of errors,warnings, progress, progress+, progress++, progress+++. Overrides-vand-q.
--logdir=<dir>
[Advanced] Write detailed logs to one or more files in the givendirectory, with generated names that include timestamps and the name ofthe running subcommand.
(To write a log file with a name you have full control over, insteadgive--log-to-stderr and redirect stderr as desired.)
--common-caches=<dir>
[Advanced] Controls the location of cached data on disk that willpersist between several runs of the CLI, such as downloaded QL packs andcompiled query plans. If not set explicitly, this defaults to adirectory named.codeql in the user's home directory; it will becreated if it doesn't already exist.
Available sincev2.15.2.