[MCHECKSTYLE-211] allow inline configuration for checkstyle plugin

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.12
• Component/s: checkstyle:check, checkstyle:checkstyle, checkstyle:checkstyle-aggregate
• Assignee: Mark Struberg
• Reporter: Romain Manni-Bucau
• Created: 19/Feb/14 11:23
• Updated: 29/Oct/14 22:36
• Resolved: 27/Feb/14 14:23

Description

Make possible to not rely on an external module or file:

      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>@pom.version@</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>check</id>
            <phase>process-resources</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>check</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
        <configuration>
          <checkstyleRules>
            <name>Checker</name>
            <modules>
              <module>
                <name>TreeWalker</name>
                <modules>
                  <module>
                    <name>EmptyBlock</name>
                  </module>
                </modules>
              </module>
            </modules>
          </checkstyleRules>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>

or (better) this one:

       <configuration>
          <logViolationsToConsole>true</logViolationsToConsole>
          <checkstyleRules>
            <![CDATA[
            <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
            <!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.2//EN" "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_2.dtd">
            <module name="Checker">
              <module name="TreeWalker">
                <module name="EmptyBlock"/>
              </module>
            </module>
            ]]>
          </checkstyleRules>
        </configuration>