I'm using command from your tutorial:

./generate-objc-dependencies-to-json.rb -w -s "" > origin.js ;

However if fails with the following output:

mbpzen:objc-dependency-visualizer zen$ ./generate-objc-dependencies-to-json.rb -w -s "" > origin.js ;
find: /Users/zen/Library/Caches/appCode*/DerivedData: No such file or directory
There were 302 directories found
Last modifications were in
/Users/zen/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/NDA-azxrhxscylnfwqhifbyzbosmrwfi/Build/Intermediates/NDA.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/NDA.build/Objects-normal/x86_64
directory at
2015-10-22 00:02:09 +0300
Cannot read file  /Users/zen/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/NDA-azxrhxscylnfwqhifbyzbosmrwfi/Build/Intermediates/NDA.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/NDA.build/Objects-normal/x86_64/NDA-master.swiftdeps : This is possibly because output file was changed:(/Users/zen/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/NDA-azxrhxscylnfwqhifbyzbosmrwfi/Build/Intermediates/NDA.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/NDA.build/Objects-normal/x86_64/NDA-master.swiftdeps): found character that cannot start any token while scanning for the next token at line 5 column 1

I get this error when running the suggested command:
/Users/<MY_HOME_DIRECTORY>/Library/Caches/appCode*/DerivedData: No such file or directory
There were 0 directories found
Cannot find projects that starts with 'MY_PROJECT_NAME'

Dependencies can have different types:

1. Inheritance (Protocols and classes)
2. Extensions (hello, swift)
3. Usage (Properties, methods, variables)

This issue is easy to reproduce if your project name contains spaces

Dependency visualizer NOT drawing visualization with Pods. Opening blink page on browser. Any ideas?

I try to run the index.html in safari ios simulator, seems need to optimize something on display.

currently, some items are "dependent" on generic arguments of functions. This need to be removed
Potentially - we can build Swift AST from type string to remove those

I have a pod project named kepler4iphone
and I user your tool to execute scentence like below:

1、clone it into my folder
2、execute ./generate-objc-dependencies-to-json.rb -d -s "kepler4iphone" > origin.js ;
console shows:
find: /Users/frank/Library/Caches/appCode*/DerivedData: No such file or directory
There were 24 directories found
Last modifications were in
/Users/frank/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/kepler4iphone-fpjlrpkkpaulyydolpctvygupltl/Build/Intermediates.noindex/Pods.build/Debug-iphoneos/WeexResKit.build/Objects-normal/armv7
directory at
2018-09-12 12:15:24 +0800

3、nothing in origin.js

Hi, love the gem, works like magic with a brand new Swift project but when I run the script for an existing production codebase I get the following output in origin.js

var dependencies = {"links":[],"links_count":0,"objects":{}}

Seems like nothing gets parsed and I wonder why and how would debug this?

Also is there a way to run it for an arbitrary folder with Swift code?

Is there any way to mark the class circles as belonging to a certain library?
It would be nice to have a rectangle around the group of classes from the same unit. Or, at least, mark them with the same colour.

The distinction may be done by either

1. prefix (NS/AF/etc.) - for cocoapods based repositories
2. target - for static lib/sub-project based repositories

When I run
./generate-objc-dependencies-to-json.rb -w -s "swift-project-analyzer"

I get the following error

Cannot read file /Users/xinyi/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/OnePlayer-cqtdohbytzcdggcjripigujhpuhx/Build/Intermediates.noindex/OnePlayer.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/OnePlayer.Example.SwiftUI.build/Objects-normal/x86_64/SwiftUIOnePlayerViewModel.swiftdeps : This is possibly because output file was changed:(/Users/xinyi/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/OnePlayer-cqtdohbytzcdggcjripigujhpuhx/Build/Intermediates.noindex/OnePlayer.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/OnePlayer.Example.SwiftUI.build/Objects-normal/x86_64/SwiftUIOnePlayerViewModel.swiftdeps): control characters are not allowed at line 1 column 1

Is there some way to group everything by file, rather than also showing the individual types etc.? I just want to think about my dependencies at the file level.

Hello.

I have a problem with the plugin. I installed it correctly. Runs correctly and generates me the files, but when I open the file "index" in the browser, there is no graphic inside.

I tried with several Xcode projects, but nothing changes.

My Xcode version is 6.1.1

When parsing sourcekitten output parameter names can be found as deps. These should not be present in the output

Consider using cytoscape and treemap for visualization

If DerivedData is relative to project, visualizer tool doesn't find it.

I usually have error like:

➜ ./generate-objc-dependencies-to-json.rb -d -s "" > origin.js ;
find: ~/Library/Caches/appCode*/DerivedData: No such file or directory
There were 0 directories found
Cannot find projects that starts with ''

In this case I need to pass as parameter full path for object files, like this:

./generate-objc-dependencies-to-json.rb -d -p "~/projects/<FOLDER_NAME>/ios-project/DerivedData/<PROJECT_NAME>/Build/Intermediates/<PROJECT_NAME>.build/Debug-iphoneos/<PROJECT_NAME>.build/Objects-normal" > origin.js

I think that it's quite inconvenient. Let's add param to pass path to DerivedData folder like this:

./generate-objc-dependencies-to-json.rb -d -D "~/projects/<FOLDER_NAME>/ios-project/DerivedData" > origin.js

where D stands for DerivedData

Often we don't want' to see dependencies on the classes itself, but rather to check, if our abstractions are leaking or not.

For example in MVVM - View should not be pointing to Model, ViewModel should not know anything about View and Model should not know anything about ViewModel.

So there should be a way how to show it correctly )

Hi,

Great tool, I can easily generate graphs for test and project targets.

However, is there a way to do the same for framework targets?

It seems like your code always checks the simulator but the frameworks are never run on the simulator.

Thanks

I tried my project and some public project i.e Alamofire. But it does not generate anythings.

Console:

./generate-objc-dependencies-to-json.rb -d -s "" > origin.js ; open index.html
find: /Users/username/Library/Caches/appCode*/DerivedData: No such file or directory
There were 91 directories found
Last modifications were in
/Users/username/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Alamofire-dhtndbmjkaofkwemgqqalpcgngke/Build/Intermediates/Alamofire.build/Debug/Alamofire macOS.build/Objects-normal/x86_64
directory at
2017-05-19 18:38:31 +1000

Since Safari doesn't support arrow functions, it's not possible to see graph in it
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Functions/Arrow_functions#Browser_compatibility

In large projects with many classes this graph can get quite messy. It would help if there was an option to eliminate nodes that only have one incoming edge and no outgoing ones.

Hi, is there a way to run the script not for the whole project but just for a Swift module or a framework?

Currently dep viz tries to perform all the things by getting dependencies, filtering items
But it's possible that we can use intermediate dependencies file (as .JSON) and perform post filering by another phase. this will help to perform fast filtering of some system libraries and some unneded classes without the need to regenerate the tree again

This also can be done to regenerate inheritance only graph

• generate intermediate output (unfiltered json)
• allow to use (unfiltered json) as a source and only apply filtering to it
• allow to use multiple jsons and merge them

https://gist.github.com/yiding/0be1cabcdc2b1b51411f

I'm unable to generate a graph for any project.

Reproduce

1. Downloaded KSHMosaicCamera
2. Built and ran the project
3. From the visualizer folder, ran: ./generate-objc-dependencies-to-json.rb -s "" -D /Users/peter/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/ > origin.js
   (note, without the -D I get the error: find: /Users/peter/Library/Caches/appCode*/DerivedData: No such file or directory)

Expected

The graph generates

Actual

Output is:

There were 45 directories found
Last modifications were in
/Users/peter/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MosiacCamera-gdvravkbpqymxvesgqnomlgzenbe/Build/Intermediates.noindex/MosiacCamera.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/MosiacCamera.build/Objects-normal/x86_64
directory at
2018-01-05 17:48:48 -0800

I'm on Xcode Version 9.2 (9C40b). Is there anything I'm doing wrong?

FYI, here's my derived data setup:

Thanks for your help. This tool seems really useful.

As a sub-project approach user
I'd like to specify multiple location of _.obj files
_So that* business logic files contained in a sub-project is displayed in the graph.

It would be cool to easily switch between the "single project" mode (as is) and "all *.obj files in DerivedData" to get the desired level of report granularity.

The origin.js file is empty.

https://github.com/Sumolari/swift-relationship-graph

The README says that you can filter classes and I found the removal of certain prefixes, but is it also possible to filter out categories from the dependency graph?

Aside from that: Outstanding tool, really appreciate your work!

Since, there's already should be some compiled projects on the computer, may be it's good idea to search through Derived data directories in order to be able to choose project from command line instead of specifying loooong path string

Thank you for this nice tool. Is there any way to exclude classes from test target?

Environment: OS X 10.11.2

The origin file does not seem to be closed in the end. OS X Finder shows the file with a size of zero bytes after running the script. Duplicating the origin.js in Finder rectifies this.

is it possible to generate a graph with both, Swift and Objective-C?

Currenlty it's hard to understand whether circle is a protocol, class or struct.
It will be way more handy to show them differently on graph

Add some list control where we can exclude some library classes, like RACSignal, etc.

Great tool, but it seems (From following instructions) that it's configured to only work when you stick the entire project inside your repository, inside your app's folder / xcodeproj - which then pollutes the xcode project (xcode will now see the files, which is very much not what I'd expect/want).

e.g. if I try to run generate-objc-dependencies-to-json.rb from the project folder, it crashes because it's hard-coded to ignore where the script lives, and instead use the current folder as the location for the visualizers binaries. I get, for instance:

ruby: No such file or directory -- ./bin/objc_dependency_tree_generator (LoadError)

e.g. if I try to run generate-objc-dependencies-to-json.rb from its own folder, and tell it where the project is located ... well, I can't. There's no command line option for that.

I have some issue, when trying to use -f dot format.
After the generation competes I got:

digraph dependencies {
	node [fontname=monospace, fontsize=9, shape=box, style=rounded]
	"" -> ""
// ...
	"" -> ""
}

I've investigate a little and found that the solution is to change the line
https://github.com/PaulTaykalo/objc-dependency-visualizer/blob/master/lib/tree_serializer.rb#L58
which is now:

s += "#{indent}\"#{link['source']}\" -> \"#{link['dest']}\"\n"

to the line:

s += "#{indent}\"#{link[:source]}\" -> \"#{link[:dest]}\"\n"

So using of symbols instead of string to query link helps.
I don't now rube well, so I'm not sure that it's right solution.

Xcode 13.1
Here is the result after running the line:

First of all, it's a large project, it should be way more than 5 "directories".
Second of all, index.html is empty.
Please help.

Hi, I would like to visualize dependencies in a swift pod. Is there a way?

I tried:

1. pod lib create HelloLib, choose Swift
2. cd HelloLib
3. open Example/HelloLib.xcworkspace
4. Add logic in Development Pod and use the lib in the demo app. For example, in Development Pod add:

• public class HelloLib { let dummy = Dummy(); public func doNothing() { dummy.doNothing() }}
• class Dummy { func doNothing() {}}
• then, in AppDelegate, import HelloLib and call HelloLib().doNothing()
• build the example app

5. git clone https://github.com/PaulTaykalo/objc-dependency-visualizer.git
6. cd objc-dependency-visualizer
7. ./generate-objc-dependencies-to-json.rb -w -s "" > origin.js

Index.html shows (as expected) AppDelegate, ViewController and HelloLib but no sign of Dummy.

Regards

Hey Paul!

I was a bit afraid of going through all the steps, I think you could make the read me even better by showing how easy it is and only including the clone/run script/etc. And then all the other manual steps could be on the wiki or in a different file. Because at first glance, you don't see how easy this is =)

There are few Swift projects for which dependency visualizer doesn't show anything

gem install objc-dependency-visualizer

It should be enough to have those line, instead of cloning the whole repo

Hello, Is it possible to filter graph result for exclude pods and basics swift objects dependencies please ?