I'm looking to do some static analysis: collect all usages of foo.bar/translate , and collect the following information: 1. literal value of the first argument (e.g. if called like (t/t "Hello") I'd like to collect "Hello" 2. filename, line, column I'm looking at the clj-kondo analysis option and in the output file I can see row, col/`end-col` which means I can probably read the source file manually, skip to row and parse the Sexpr manually somehow. Am I missing something? Would I use something like edamame to safely parse the s-expression? (I guess clojure.edn could also work for 95% of the cases)...

@orestis Is this for linting or just gathering information?

This is only to gather information

I think you could do this using a hook. Just write a hook for your function, collect the first argument, call (api/reg-finding! (assoc (meta arg-node) :message "collect some info" :type :my-custom/linter)) and then register {:linters {:my-custom/linter {:level :info}}}

(Eventually we may write a custom linter if the approach holds, but for now we need to collect info)

and then call clj-kondo in the jvm and collect :type :my-custom/linter from the :findings

An alternative without clj-kondo could be using https://github.com/borkdude/grasp

If you're planning to add linting later, I'd go for the clj-kondo approach

Can I call clj-kondo with only this single linter?

@orestis yes, {:linters ^:replace {:my-custom/linter {:level :info}}}

Looking into the hook

@orestis example:

$ clj-kondo --lint code.clj --config .clj-kondo/find_hello.edn
code.clj:4:20: info: Hello

$ cat code.clj
(ns code
  (:require [foo.bar]))

(foo.bar/translate "Hello")

$ cat .clj-kondo/hooks/hello.clj
(ns hooks.hello
  (:require [clj-kondo.hooks-api :as api]))

(defn translate-hook [{:keys [node]}]
  (let [arg (second (:children node))]
    (when (= "Hello" (api/sexpr arg))
      (api/reg-finding! (assoc (meta arg)
                               :message "Hello"
                               :type :my-custom/linter)))))

$ cat .clj-kondo/find_hello.edn
{:linters ^:replace {:my-custom/linter {:level :info}}
 :hooks {:analyze-call {foo.bar/translate hooks.hello/translate-hook}}}

^ slightly adapted it @orestis

Hm, I'm having trouble with the config. The file is getting linted with my main config...

See example: `

--config .clj-kondo/find_hello.edn

Sorry, it gets linted with the new config in addition to the previous one. So I'm also getting warnings about unused requires etc.

See ^:replace in the config

Yep, it's there:

{:linters ^:replace {:nosco.i18n/translate {:level :info}}
 :hooks {:analyze-call {nosco.i18n.translate-server/t hooks/translate-server}}}

@borkdude for this issue https://github.com/sicmutils/sicmutils/pull/478, I wrote :kondo/ignore but the actual code correctly used :clj-kondo/ignore ;