Add a strict clippy config
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Description
hyper for a long time never bothered with clippy. Mostly for historical reasons and opinions.
I've now come around to just turning clippy up to 11. What I'm currently leaning towards is keeping an allowlist, and otherwise denying pedantic and even restriction lints. Yes, I know there's a restriction lint against linting for the restriction group. An allowlist still makes a lot of sense to me. If after a bit it turns out to be just unbearable, we can convert it to a bigger deny list, I guess.
The initial config is in place, with a CI job that enforce it, so we won't regress with new code. Now, we just need to evaluate all the undecided lints, and either choose to allow them for sure, or fix them.
How to help
Look at the list of lints that need to be decided upon in the Cargo.toml (it's around there, the line might move slightly).
- Pick a lint.
- If it seems obviously an improvement:
- Fix up the code from the lint.
- It might be as simple as
cargo clippy --fix --features full. - It might be obvious enough for an LLM to automate fixing. (But only if you understand what changes it made.)
- It might need manual adjustment in each case.
- It might need to be
#[allow(this_lint)]in specific cases, where the lint is usually useful.
- It might be as simple as
- Remove the allowed lint from the
Cargo.toml - Submit a PR for one lint at a time.
- Fix up the code from the lint.
- If it is not obviously an improvement:
- Move the lint down lower to the explicitly allowed list in the
Cargo.toml - Add a comment why the lint is being allowed
- Submit a PR (multiple lints solved this way is fine in a single PR)
- Move the lint down lower to the explicitly allowed list in the
Steps
- #4075
- address each one in in the todo list
- arithmetic_side_effects = "allow" # TODO: consider
- as_conversions = "allow" # TODO: tricky
- borrow_as_ptr = "allow"
- cast_lossless = "allow" # TODO: easy fix
- cast_possible_truncation = "allow" # TODO: consider
- cast_precision_loss = "allow" # TODO: consider
- checked_conversions = "allow"
- collapsible_match = "allow"
- decimal_literal_representation = "allow" # TODO: consider
- default_trait_access = "allow"
- else_if_without_else = "allow"
- empty_structs_with_brackets = "allow" # TODO: easy fix
- enum_glob_use = "allow"
- explicit_iter_loop = "allow" # TODO: easy fix
- float_arithmetic = "allow"
- ignored_unit_patterns = "allow"
- indexing_slicing = "allow"
- integer_division = "allow"
- integer_division_remainder_used = "allow"
- large_enum_variant = "allow"
- let_unit_value = "allow"
- manual_assert = "allow" # TODO: easy fix
- manual_assert_eq = "allow" # TODO: easy fix
- map_err_ignore = "allow"
- map_unwrap_or = "allow"
- match_wild_err_arm = "allow"
- missing_fields_in_debug = "allow" # TODO: use finish_non_exhaustive
- missing_errors_doc = "allow" # TODO: good to fix
- missing_panics_doc = "allow" # TODO: might be false
- multiple_inherent_impl = "allow"
- multiple_unsafe_ops_per_block = "allow"
- needless_continue = "allow"
- needless_pass_by_value = "allow"
- panic = "allow"
- pattern_type_mismatch = "allow"
- ptr_as_ptr = "allow"
- question_mark = "allow" # TODO: probably easy fix
- redundant_closure_for_method_calls = "allow"
- redundant_else = "allow"
- ref_option = "allow"
- ref_patterns = "allow" # TODO: perhaps deny?
- semicolon_if_nothing_returned = "allow" # TODO: easy fix
- single_char_lifetime_names = "allow"
- single_match_else = "allow" # TODO: easy fix
- struct_excessive_bools = "allow" # TODO: bogus lint?
- trivially_copy_pass_by_ref = "allow"
- undocumented_unsafe_blocks = "allow" # TODO: fix me
- uninlined_format_args = "allow" # TODO: easy fix
- unnecessary_semicolon = "allow" # TODO: easy fix
- unnecessary_trailing_comma = "allow"
- unnested_or_patterns = "allow"
- unused_async = "allow" # TODO: is it for API?
- unused_trait_names = "allow" # TODO: kinda annoying, but might be good to deny
- unwrap_in_result = "allow"
- useless_borrows_in_formatting = "allow"
- wildcard_enum_match_arm = "allow"
- wildcard_imports = "allow" # TODO: never, except for tests
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