[MPMD-158] Relative file name doesn't work when specifying ruleset

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.1
• Component/s: PMD
• Environment: Windows 7
• Assignee: Andreas Dangel
• Reporter: Taras Pushyk
• Created: 23/Nov/12 03:02
• Updated: 25/Sep/16 10:47
• Resolved: 25/Sep/16 10:47

Description

When ruleset specified as follows:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.7.1</version>
  <configuration>
     <linkXref>false</linkXref
     <minimumTokens>100</minimumTokens
     <targetJdk>1.5</targetJdk>
     <rulesets>
       <ruleset>../config/basic.xml</ruleset>
     </rulesets>
  </configuration>
</plugin>

File is not resolved. Also following message appears on console:
[DEBUG] The resource '../config/basic.xml' was not found with resourceLoader org.codehaus.plexus.resource.loader.FileResourceLoader.

Issue Links

• is related to: MCHECKSTYLE-131 Plugin can't use configLocation from parent.
• is superceded by: MPMD-227 Document multimodule configuration example