CMake/Help/command/cmake_instrumentation.rst

cmake_instrumentation
---------------------

.. versionadded:: 4.0

.. note::

   This command is only available when experimental support for instrumentation
   has been enabled by the ``CMAKE_EXPERIMENTAL_INSTRUMENTATION`` gate.

Enables interacting with the
:manual:`CMake Instrumentation API <cmake-instrumentation(7)>`.

This allows for configuring instrumentation at the project-level.

.. code-block:: cmake

  cmake_instrumentation(
    API_VERSION <version>
    DATA_VERSION <version>
    [HOOKS <hooks>...]
    [OPTIONS <options>...]
    [CALLBACK <callback>]
    [CUSTOM_CONTENT <name> <type> <content>]
  )

The ``API_VERSION`` and ``DATA_VERSION`` must always be given.  Currently, the
only supported value for both fields is 1.  See :ref:`cmake-instrumentation API v1`
for details of the ``API_VERSION`` and :ref:`cmake-instrumentation Data v1` for details
of the ``DATA_VERSION``.

Each of the optional keywords ``HOOKS``, ``OPTIONS``, and ``CALLBACK``
correspond to one of the parameters to the :ref:`cmake-instrumentation v1 Query Files`.
The ``CALLBACK`` keyword can be provided multiple times to create multiple callbacks.

Whenever ``cmake_instrumentation`` is invoked, a query file is generated in
``<build>/.cmake/instrumentation/v1/query/generated`` to enable instrumentation
with the provided arguments.

.. _`cmake_instrumentation Configure Content`:

Custom Configure Content
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The ``CUSTOM_CONTENT`` argument specifies certain data from configure time to
include in each :ref:`cmake-instrumentation v1 Snippet File` that
corresponds to the configure step associated with the command. This may be used
to associate instrumentation data with certain information about its
configuration, such as the optimization level or whether it is part of a
coverage build.

``CUSTOM_CONTENT`` expects ``name``, ``type`` and ``content`` arguments.

``name`` is a specifier to identify the content being reported.

``type`` specifies how the content should be interpreted. Supported values are:
  * ``STRING`` the content is a string.
  * ``BOOL`` the content should be interpreted as a boolean. It will be ``true``
    under the same conditions that ``if()`` would be true for the given value.
  * ``LIST`` the content is a CMake ``;`` separated list that should be parsed.
  * ``JSON`` the content should be parsed as a JSON string. This can be a
    number such as ``1`` or ``5.0``, a quoted string such as ``\"string\"``,
    a boolean value ``true``/``false``, or a JSON object such as
    ``{ \"key\" : \"value\" }`` that may be constructed using
    ``string(JSON ...)`` commands.

``content`` is the actual content to report.

Example
^^^^^^^

The following example shows an invocation of the command and its
equivalent JSON query file.

.. code-block:: cmake

  cmake_instrumentation(
    API_VERSION 1
    DATA_VERSION 1
    HOOKS postGenerate preCMakeBuild postCMakeBuild
    OPTIONS staticSystemInformation dynamicSystemInformation trace
    CALLBACK ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -P /path/to/handle_data.cmake
    CALLBACK ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -P /path/to/handle_data_2.cmake
    CUSTOM_CONTENT myString STRING string
    CUSTOM_CONTENT myList   LIST   "item1;item2"
    CUSTOM_CONTENT myObject JSON   "{ \"key\" : \"value\" }"
  )

.. code-block:: json

  {
    "version": 1,
    "hooks": [
      "postGenerate", "preCMakeBuild", "postCMakeBuild"
    ],
    "options": [
      "staticSystemInformation", "dynamicSystemInformation", "trace"
    ],
    "callbacks": [
      "/path/to/cmake -P /path/to/handle_data.cmake"
      "/path/to/cmake -P /path/to/handle_data_2.cmake"
    ]
  }

This will also result in a configure content JSON being reported in each
:ref:`cmake-instrumentation v1 Snippet File` with the following contents:

.. code-block:: json

  {
    "myString": "string",
    "myList": [
      "item1", "item2"
    ],
    "myObject": {
      "key": "value"
    }
  }