Add a typechecker

How to add a new typechecker to the check goal.

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Adding a typechecker is almost identical to adding a linter, except for these differences:

1. Subclass CheckRequest from pants.core.goals.check, rather than LintTargetsRequest.
2. Register a UnionRule(CheckRequest, CustomCheckRequest) in your rules() instead of unpacking <RequestType>.rules(...).
3. Return CheckResults in your rule—which is a collection of CheckResult objects—rather than returning a LintResult.

The rule will look like this:

from dataclasses import dataclass

from pants.core.goals.check import CheckRequest, CheckResult, CheckResults
from pants.engine.target import FieldSet
from pants.engine.rules import collect_rules, rule
from pants.engine.unions import UnionRule
from pants.util.logging import LogLevel


@dataclass(frozen=True)
class MyPyFieldSet(FieldSet):
    required_fields = (PythonSourceField,)

    source: PythonSourceField


class MyPyRequest(CheckRequest):
    field_set_type = MyPyFieldSet
    name = "mypy"


@rule(desc="Typecheck using MyPy", level=LogLevel.DEBUG)
async def mypy_typecheck(request: MyPyRequest, mypy: MyPy) -> CheckResults:
    if mypy.skip:
        return CheckResults([], checker_name=request.name)
    ...
    return CheckResults(
        [CheckResult.from_fallible_process_result(result)], checker_name=request.name
    )

def rules():
    return [*collect_rules(), UnionRule(CheckRequest, MyPyRequest)]

Refer to Add a linter. See pants/backend/python/typecheck/mypy/rules.py for an example of MyPy.