file_result(+File, +OptionList)

File

Atom or string

OptionList

List of options

Description

This will pretty-print the specified source file in the calling module context, annotated with the result of instrumentation. The resulting .html file is placed in a sub-directory called instrument', relative to File.

The use of this predicate is only meaningful if the module has previously been instrumented and compiled using instrument:instrument/1,2, and the code has been run in order to obtain instrumentation results.

OptionList is a list of options identical to the one accepted by pretty_print/2 in the library(pretty_printer), and can be used to modify the output style and the location of the output file.

Additionally, OptionList may contain the following options:

ignore_module_templates (default:off)

Specifying this option as on results in the use of file local templates only during instrumentation. Templates are not sought from the global store.

This option should only be specified if it was also specified during instrumentation (i.e. when using instrument:instrument/3).

macro_expansion (default:off)

This option affects only the printing of the result (html) file. By default, read-macros are not expanded in this output. In rare cases, where macro expansion would affect the placement of instrumentation positions, it may be necessary to set this option to on in order to display the instrumentation at the correct positions in the code.

verbose (default:off)

If set to on, the instrument preprocessor will print predicate names as they are processed (to log_output). If set to debug, the instrument preprocessor prints each instrumented and/or woven predicate definition (to log_output).

See struct(itemplate) for documentation of how the result instrumentation is used in the annotation and pretty-printing of the code.

The predicate is a tool and the instrumentation results of a file in an alternate module to the current calling module context can be obtained invoking module_result(File, OptionList)@Module.

Modules

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