PMD / Issues / #1414 Command line parameter to disable "failOnViolation" behavior

#1414 Command line parameter to disable "failOnViolation" behavior

Milestone: PMD-5.4.0

Status: closed

Owner: Andreas Dangel

Labels: None

Module: PMD

Priority: 3-Major

Type: Feature-Request

Affects version:

Ruleset / Rule:

Updated: 2015-09-26

Created: 2015-09-24

Creator: NoRulez

Private: No

It would be nice to have a command line option "--exit-with-success" or similar which exits with return code 0 instead of 4, so that other tools which only checks "exitcode != 0" also succeeds

Discussion

Andreas Dangel - 2015-09-26

Currently PMD command line has the following exit codes:

0 Everything is fine, now violations found

1 Couldn't understand command line parameters or PMD exited with an exception

4 At least one violation has been detected

4 means, the PMD check was not successful - and hence it returns 4 instead of 0....

I guess, you would like to have an option like doNotFailOnViolation or ignoreViolations that would just write the report, but don't fail the build.

Is this correct?

If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:

Andreas Dangel - 2015-09-26

summary: Exitcode for successful runs --> Command line parameter to disable "failOnViolation" behavior

status: open --> in-progress

assigned_to: Andreas Dangel

Milestone: New Tickets --> PMD-5.4.0
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:

Andreas Dangel - 2015-09-26

I'll add for PMD 5.4.0 a new option, that can disable this behavior:

Executing PMD as

./run.sh pmd -d src -f text -R java-basic -failOnViolation false

will execute the checks and write the report but exit with status code 0 instead of 4.
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:

Andreas Dangel - 2015-09-26

Implemented for PMD 5.4.0.

Commit: https://github.com/pmd/pmd/commit/bbd0bf98fdebe52b4a4d393a07a97957f48b588f

If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:

Andreas Dangel - 2015-09-26

status: in-progress --> closed
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:

Command line parameter to disable "failOnViolation" behavior

A source code analyzer

Milestone

Searches

Help

#1414 Command line parameter to disable "failOnViolation" behavior

Discussion

0	Everything is fine, now violations found
1	Couldn't understand command line parameters or PMD exited with an exception
4	At least one violation has been detected