[MCHECKSTYLE-371] Add logViolationCountToConsole property

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.1.1
• Component/s: checkstyle:check
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Stig Rohde Døssing
• Created: 19/Mar/19 13:13
• Updated: 24/Jan/21 14:19
• Resolved: 03/Jan/20 10:39

Description

The plugin is missing a property to allow users to log the violation count to console.

There are already a couple of places where the violation count may be logged, but it doesn't happen unconditionally. The DefaultCheckstyleExecutor may log the error count, but only if there are error-severity violations. The CheckstyleViolationCheckMojo.countViolations method may log the violation count, but only if there are ignored violations.

It would be nice if a logViolationCountToConsole property were added. Printing the violation count is convenient in cases where e.g. you have fixed some violations in a project and now want to reduce maxAllowedViolations. Currently you have to either manually count the violations from the report, or set maxAllowedViolations to 0 to get the plugin to fail and print the violation count.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #12