✨ Checkstyle Configuration

This project provides a default configuration for Checkstyle.

To use it, configure your maven-checkstyle-plugin like so:

   <plugin>
     <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
     <version>3.6.0</version>
     <dependencies>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.github.dimdnk</groupId>
         <artifactId>checkstyle-config</artifactId>
         <version>LATEST-VERSION</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
         <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
         <version>11.0.0</version>
       </dependency>
     </dependencies>
     <configuration>
       <configLocation>maven-project-common-checkstyle.xml</configLocation>

       <!-- The following parameters are optional: -->
       <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
       <failOnViolation>true</failOnViolation>
       <logViolationsToConsole>true</logViolationsToConsole>
       <violationSeverity>error</violationSeverity>
     </configuration>
     <executions>
       <execution>
         <id>validate</id>
         <phase>validate</phase>
         <goals>
           <goal>check</goal>
         </goals>
       </execution>
     </executions>
   </plugin>

See the maven-checkstyle-plugin docs for more information about what the configuration parameters mean.

Internally, we have the above configuration in the <pluginManagement/> section of a company-wide parent pom, meaning that projects only need to specify the below in their <build><plugins> section:

   <plugin>
      <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
   </plugin>

Configuration

Suppressions

The configuration of the checkstyle plugin you get from maven-project-common-checkstyle.xml tells it to optionally look for a file named checkstyle-suppressions.xml as per the SuppressionFilter docs. This means you can configure suppressions by providing such a file on your project's classpath or in the current directory where you build it - note that for multi-module projects, it's probably a good idea to use something like this solution to share the configuration among each sub-module.

IDEA support

There is a configuration file for IntelliJ IDEA that you can import into your project.