Running aligncheck

To run aligncheck as a client-side tool:

Enable aligncheck and configure the corresponding code patterns on your repository Code patterns page.
Enable Run analysis on your build server on your repository Settings, tab General, Repository analysis on your server.
This setting enables Codacy to wait for the results of the local analysis before resuming the analysis of your commits.
Set up an API token to authenticate on Codacy:
- If you're setting up one repository, obtain a repository API token and set the following environment variable to specify your repository API token:
```
export CODACY_PROJECT_TOKEN=<your repository API token>
```
- If you're setting up multiple repositories, obtain an account API Token and set the following environment variable to specify the account API token:
```
export CODACY_API_TOKEN=<your account API token>
```
caution
Never write API tokens to your configuration files and keep your API tokens well protected, as they grant owner permissions to your projects on Codacy.
It's a best practice to store API tokens as environment variables. Check the documentation of your CI/CD platform on how to do this.
If you're using Codacy Self-hosted set the following environment variable to specify your Codacy instance URL:
```
export CODACY_API_BASE_URL=<your Codacy instance URL>
```

Download and run the

Codacy Analysis CLI

on the root of the repository, specifying the tool aligncheck.

codacy-analysis-cli analyze --tool aligncheck \
                            --allow-network \
                            --upload \
                            --verbose

If you're using an account API token, you must also provide the flags --provider, --username, and --project. You can obtain the values for these flags from the URL of your repository dashboard on Codacy:

codacy-analysis-cli analyze --provider <gh, ghe, gl, gle, bb, or bbe> \
                            --username <name of your Codacy organization> \
                            --project <name of your repository> \
                            --tool aligncheck \
                            --allow-network \
                            --upload \
                            --verbose

The Codacy Analysis CLI runs aligncheck on your repository and uploads the results to Codacy so you can use them in your workflow.

Advanced configuration

See the available Codacy Analysis CLI configuration flags to configure running aligncheck in more advanced scenarios.