preCICE Config-Format

config-format is a tool meant to format preCICE configurations consistently. A uniform order simplifies cooperation debugging.

Installation options

Install directly from PyPi using pipx or via pip:

pipx install precice-config-format

Usage

To format one or more preCICE configuration files in-place:

precice-config-format FILE ...

The script returns with exit code 0 on success, 1 on error, and 2 if a file was modified.

pre-commit hook

To use this script as a pre-commit hook select a tag and add:

-   repo: https://github.com/precice/config-format
    rev: ''  # Use the tag you want to use
    hooks:
    -   id: precice-config-format

To exclude directories, use exclude:

-   repo: https://github.com/precice/config-format
    rev: ''  # Use the tag you want to use
    hooks:
    -   id: precice-config-format
        exclude: '^thridparty' # optionally exclude directories here

Licensing

This repository contains a modified version of format_precice_config.py, which was part of the repository precice/precice-pre-commit-hooks. The copyright holder Frédéric Simonis (@fsimonis frederic.simonis@ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de) decided on 23. June 2025 16:30 CET to rerelease the content of the file format_precice_config.py in this repository under the MIT license.