[MPMD-221] Support all languages that PMD supports

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.6
• Component/s: CPD, PMD
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andreas Dangel
• Created: 10/Apr/16 18:17
• Updated: 02/Oct/20 18:18

Description

PMD supports now many different languages besides Java, JavaScript, JSP.
There are XML, XSL and also some rules for Maven POM files

CPD supports even more languages, like C, C++, C#, PHP, Swift, ...

Currently, maven-pmd-plugin only supports java, javascript, jsp: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-pmd-plugin/pmd-mojo.html#language
and http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-pmd-plugin/cpd-mojo.html#language

In theory, PMD can determine the language type on its own by using the file extensions. Ideally, the maven-pmd-plugin would not restrict the possible languages.

Issue Links

• relates to: MPMD-183 Multiple programming language support
• relates to: MPMD-290 Add CPD example for C#
• relates to: MPMD-154 Support PLSQL language
• relates to: MPMD-164 Would be it possible to validate Java and Javascript file in one pass?