[MPMD-222] ruleset via rulesetfile does not work

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 3.6
• Fix Version/s: 3.6
• Component/s: PMD
• Labels: patch
• Environment: uname -a; Linux linux-tanr.site 4.1.21-14-default #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Apr 17 07:27:45 UTC 2016 (fc187c1) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
• Flags: Patch, Important
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ernst Reissner
• Created: 08/Jun/16 22:18
• Updated: 10/Jun/16 08:27
• Resolved: 10/Jun/16 08:27

Description

in my pom i wrote
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.6</version><!-- belongs to PMD 5.3.5 -->
<configuration>
<skip>false</skip>
<rulesets>
<ruleset>${maven.pmd.rulesetfiles}</ruleset>
</rulesets>

and maven.pmd.rulesetfiles is defined as
maven.pmd.rulesetfiles>${basedir}/config/myruleset.xml</maven.pmd.rulesetfiles>

which in turn looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<ruleset name="myruleset"
xmlns="http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ruleset/2.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ruleset/2.0.0 http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ruleset_2_0_0.xsd">
<rule ref="rulesets/java/typeresolution.xml" />
</ruleset>

Then a violation of SignatureDeclareThrowsException is not detected,
whereas if directly specifying

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.6</version><!-- belongs to PMD 5.3.5 -->
<configuration>
<skip>false</skip>
<rulesets>
<ruleset>rulesets/java/typeresolution.xml/SignatureDeclareThrowsException</ruleset>

it works fine.
So I think it is not a problem with pmd but with the plugin.