[HBASE-23690] Checkstyle plugin complains about our checkstyle.xml format; doc how to resolve mismatched version

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha-1
• Assignee: Michael Stack
• Reporter: Michael Stack
• Created: 15/Jan/20 07:06
• Updated: 18/Jan/20 13:36
• Resolved: 17/Jan/20 22:55

Description

Trying to add the checkstyle.xml to the intellij checkstyle plugin after reading HBASE-23688, it complains with the following when it reads in the config file:

com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.CheckstyleException: cannot initialize module TreeWalker - TreeWalker is not allowed as a parent of LineLength Please review 'Parent Module' section for this Check in web documentation if Check is standard.
	at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.Checker.setupChild(Checker.java:473)
	at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean.configure(AutomaticBean.java:198)
	at org.infernus.idea.checkstyle.service.cmd.OpCreateChecker.execute(OpCreateChecker.java:61)
	at org.infernus.idea.checkstyle.service.cmd.OpCreateChecker.execute(OpCreateChecker.java:26)
	at org.infernus.idea.checkstyle.service.CheckstyleActionsImpl.executeCommand(CheckstyleActionsImpl.java:130)
	at org.infernus.idea.checkstyle.service.CheckstyleActionsImpl.createChecker(CheckstyleActionsImpl.java:60)
	at org.infernus.idea.checkstyle.service.CheckstyleActionsImpl.createChecker(CheckstyleActionsImpl.java:51)
	at org.infernus.idea.checkstyle.checker.CheckerFactoryWorker.run(CheckerFactoryWorker.java:46)
Caused by: com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.CheckstyleException: TreeWalker is not allowed as a parent of LineLength Please review 'Parent Module' section for this Check in web documentation if Check is standard.
	at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.TreeWalker.setupChild(TreeWalker.java:147)
	at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean.configure(AutomaticBean.java:198)
	at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.Checker.setupChild(Checker.java:468)
	... 7 more

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1044

Sub-Tasks

• Update checkstyle plugin (and update checkstyle.xml to match): Resolved
• Add IntelliJ check style plugin configuration: Resolved