Checkstyle, FindBugs and PMD Gradle Configuration

Configure Code Analysis Tools with Gradle

I’m really happy that configuring Checkstyle, Findbugs and PMD with Gradle is so easy. So if you want to see how I configured the tools than have a quick look at this code snippet gist: https://gist.github.com/claudioaltamura/a9e59c009db38d615dae

After you have configured your Code Analysis Tool, you just have to type in:

 gradle check

How do I configure Checkstyle, Findbugs or PMD?

Checkstyle
This is a checkstyle.xml file with one check.

[code language=“xml“]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
"-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN"
"http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">

<module name="Checker">
<module name="TreeWalker">
<module name="UnusedImports"/>
</module>
</module>
[/code]

So if you like to add available checks, go to this site http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/checks.html and http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config.html for general configuration.

Findbugs
If you remove the property ‚includeFilter‘, you do a full findbugs check. If you are interested only into a few filter then check these two sites http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/bugDescriptions.html and
http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/manual/filter.html.

Just include findbugs.xml file and your filters like this:

[code language=“xml“]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<FindBugsFilter>
<Match>
<Bug code="ODR" />
</Match>
</FindBugsFilter>
[/code]

PMD
Here you can see a typcial PMD ruleset.xml file.

[code language=“xml“]
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ruleset name="Custom ruleset"
xmlns="http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ruleset/2.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ruleset/2.0.0 http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ruleset_2_0_0.xsd">

<description>
This ruleset checks my code for bad stuff
</description>

<rule ref="rulesets/java/basic.xml" />
<rule ref="rulesets/java/design.xml" />

</ruleset>
[/code]

For configuration see https://pmd.github.io/pmd-5.3.3/pmd-java/rules/index.html
or https://pmd.github.io/pmd-5.3.3/usage/running.html

Have Fun!

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