[MCHECKSTYLE-182] Use Maven log levels when logging to console

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.9.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.12
• Component/s: checkstyle:check
• Assignee: Dennis Lundberg
• Reporter: Andreas Sewe
• Created: 09/Oct/12 04:03
• Updated: 08/Apr/15 08:02
• Resolved: 21/Feb/14 17:02

Description

Getting checkstyle:check to print out Checkstyle's findings to the console during a build is surprisingly hard/ugly:

<violationSeverity>info</violationSeverity>
<failOnViolation>false</failOnViolation>
<logViolationsToConsole>true</logViolationsToConsole>

While this achieves the desired effect, it produces a warning:

[WARNING] checkstyle:check violations detected but failOnViolation set to false

Moreover, all found violations, whether errors, warnings, or infos, are logged as [ERROR]'s on Maven's console. It would be nice if the maven-checkstyle-plugin would use the corresponding Maven log levels instead.

Issue Links

• is related to: MCHECKSTYLE-243 log checkstyle:check violations to console by default