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Contributing Guidelines

Commit Messages

If a pull-request addresses a JIRA ticket, for a single-commit PR, prefix the subject line with the ticket ID. (For a multi-commit PR, we will add the ID later when we squash or merge it.)

CXX-883 Add commit message conventions to CONTRIBUTING.md

Capitalize subject lines and don't use a trailing period. Keep the subject at most 70 characters long. Use active voice! Imagine this preamble to get your phrasing right:

If applied, this commit will... [your subject line]

See Chris Beams' How to write a git commit message for more good guidelines to follow.

Lifecycle Methods

  • default-or-argument-bearing 'user' constructors

  • declaration-or-deletion-of-move-constructor

  • declaration-or-deletion-of-move-assignment-operator

  • declaration-or-deletion-of-copy-constructor

  • declaration-or-deletion-of-copy-assignment-operator

  • declaration-of-dtor

Headers

Public headers must have a ".hpp" suffix. Private headers must have a ".hh" suffix.

General structure:

  • License
  • Include Guard (#pragma once)
  • Header Prelude
  • System Headers <vector> (alphabetical order)
  • Driver Headers <path/to/header.hpp> (alphabetical order)
  • Open Namespace mongocxx
  • inline namespace v_noabi {
  • Code
  • } // namespace v_noabi
  • Close Namespace mongocxx
  • Header Postlude

Example:

// Copyright 2018-present MongoDB Inc.
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.

#pragma once

#include <driver/config/prelude.hpp>

#include <vector>

#include <driver/blah.hpp>

namespace mongocxx {
inline namespace v_noabi {

// Declarations

// Inline Implementations

}  // namespace v_noabi
}  // namespace mongocxx

#include <driver/config/postlude.hpp>

Class Declarations

Guidelines:

  • Blank line at beginning and end of class declaration
  • Public section up top / private at bottom
  • Lifecycle methods first (see rules above)
  • Private Member Ordering
    • Friendships
    • Private Constructors
    • Private Methods
    • Private Variables

Example:

class foo {

    public:
      foo();

      foo(foo&& other) noexcept;
      foo& operator=(foo&& other) noexcept;

      ~foo();

    private:
      friend baz;

      class MONGOCXX_PRIVATE impl;
      std::unique_ptr<impl> _impl;

};

Inlines

  • Define outside of class declaration
  • Specify inline keyword in declaration and definition (for clarity)

Relational Operators

  • Prefer to use free functions

Formatting

The source includes a clang format definitions file (.clang-format) to enforce consistent style. Run clang-format (using 3.8) from the root of the repository or use the helper script included in the source:

python ./etc/clang-format.py format

Note, this script will automatically download clang-format 3.8 if it cannot detect it on your system.