[MCHECKSTYLE-25] Do not execute checkstyle when the project has no sources and when checkstyle is triggered through checkstyle:check

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0
• Assignee: Fabrizio Giustina
• Reporter: Vincent Massol
• Created: 30/Dec/05 12:43
• Updated: 08/Mar/06 22:47
• Resolved: 30/Dec/05 13:48

Description

It's nice to be able to share the checkstyle config in a parent pom. However doing so leads to an error:

C:\dev\cargo\trunk>mvn clean install
[...]
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Cargo Core
[INFO] task-segment: [clean, install]
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[...]
[INFO] Preparing checkstyle:check
[...]
[INFO] [checkstyle:checkstyle]
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] An error has occurred in Checkstyle report generation.

Embedded error: No source directory to process for checkstyle
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 19 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Fri Dec 30 19:40:19 CET 2005
[INFO] Final Memory: 8M/15M
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Issue Links

• duplicates: MCHECKSTYLE-17 checkstyle plugin should skip generating reports if no sources exist (patch included)