Development Style Guide

Objective C

• indentation: 4, no tabs
• character encoding: Unicode (UTF-8)
• Line endings: MacOS / Unix (LF)
• doxygen using the @ style

karatasi uses doxygen for code documentation.
Please refer to INSTALL for more instructions how to generate doxygen pages.

Files / Classes

• every file (*.h, *.m) starts with the karatasi header (copyright etc), followed by a short doxygen description of its purpose using the @file and @brief tags.
• every class has a doxygen description (purpose, responsibilities, collaborations, ...) in the header file just above the @interface declaration.

Functions / Methods

• all functions have a doxygen documentation in the *.m file, which describes the contract (interface), not the implementation.
• additionally, they may have a short description in the header file, using // comments.
• in the doxygen documentation, the first line is a brief description, ended with a dot.
• the next lines may contain any important information.
• all parameters have to be documented using @param tags
• all return values have to be documented using a @return tag. Functions returning void have no @return tag.
• exceptions or side effects should be documented

ToDo's

Use the following syntax for ToDo's:
//! @todo user: text