Names of linked frameworks

[artemnovichkov]

Context 🕵️‍♀️

I'm developing Carting and in next major release I want to rewrite project parsing logic with xcproj.

What 🌱

I want to get a names of linked frameworks for every target, but I didn't API for it. Here is my test code:

let project = try XcodeProj(pathString: path)
for (_, target) in project.pbxproj.objects.nativeTargets {
    let frameworksBuildPhase = project.pbxproj.objects.frameworksBuildPhases.first { (key, _) in
        target.buildPhases.contains(key)
    }
    print(frameworksBuildPhase!.value.files)
}

I got only refs for frameworks.

[pepicrft]

Hi @artemnovichkov. Those references are references to build files:

BuildPhase > Build File > FileReference

So you would need to get the build file, and from it the file reference. Unfortunately there's no convenience API that allows you get get it directly without having to do multiple calls. Improving this is in the backlog but I haven't worked on it yet. Let me know if that works for you :)

[artemnovichkov]

I'm not sure I have enough time, but I'm ready to start it. Could you please tell me how I can get the names for framework references with current xcproj implementation?

[pepicrft]

Sure, no worries. I can do that, I just tried to explain you why it's not possible right now. So in order to do that with the current implementation:

func likedFrameworks(targetName: String, project: PBXProj) -> [PBXFileReference] {
    guard let target = project.objects.targets(named: targetName).first else { return [] }
    guard let frameworksBuildPhase: PBXFrameworksBuildPhase = project.objects.frameworksBuildPhases.filter({ (key, phase) in
        target.object.buildPhases.contains(key)
    }).first?.value else { return [] }
    let buildFiles = frameworksBuildPhase.files.compactMap({ project.objects.buildFiles[$0] }).compactMap({ $0.fileRef })
    return buildFiles.compactMap({ project.objects.fileReferences[$0] })
}

That should give you the linked frameworks for any target.

[artemnovichkov]

Got it, thank you!