PowerUps

A command line tool to help me manage a large Xcode Instruments XML file. It's designed to process a bunch of includes and variables before running in Xcode and then remove the automatically generated code when the run has finished.

This tool has a very specific use-case aimed at large XML files (like Xcode Instruments). I've written a blog post with more details here: https://trycombine.com/posts/xcode-powerups/

Generally, these are the steps to integrate with an Xcode Instruments project:

1. Add a Build/pre-action to run the powerups on your instruments file:

/path/to/powerups \
 $SOURCE_ROOT/Instrument/MyInstrument.instrpkg \
  --includesFolder \
 $SOURCE_ROOT/Instrument \
  --variables \
 $SOURCE_ROOT/Instrument/global-variables.json \
  --overwrite \
 > $SOURCE_ROOT/logs/powerups-log.txt

This pre-action will run the compiled powerups binary and feed it the instrpkg file and the given includes directory and global variables file. The output is saved to the given log text file.

2. Add a Run/post-action to clean up your instrpkg file so you can edit it manually if needed after running:

/path/to/powerups \
 $SOURCE_ROOT/Instrument/MyInstrument.instrpkg \
  --cleanup \
  --overwrite \
&& > $SOURCE_ROOT/logs/powerups-log.txt

That's it. When you run the instrument for testing, powerups will process the includes and variables, add the generated content in the package file, and finally when you close Instruments and stop running, it'll remove the generated content from your source file.

For a simple use case from the command line run the run-demo.sh script in the repo root folder.

Copyright (c) Marin Todorov 2022 This code is provided under the MIT License.