[MPMD-243] excludeFromFailureFile configuration does not work

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Affects Version/s: 3.2, 3.5, 3.7, 3.8
• Component/s: PMD
• Assignee: Andreas Dangel
• Reporter: Benedikt Ritter
• Created: 12/Sep/17 09:08
• Updated: 29/Jan/18 16:33
• Resolved: 09/Jan/18 07:57

Description

The excludeFromFailureFile configruation is ignored since version 3.1 of Maven PMD plugin. Here is my plugin configuration:

      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
        <!-- Latest version is 3.8, all version above 3.1 ignore the excludes file, hence we're downgrading to 3.1 -->
        <version>3.8</version>
        <configuration>
          <verbose>true</verbose>
        </configuration>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <goals>
              <goal>check</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <excludeFromFailureFile>${basedir}/config/pmd/pmd-exclude.properties</excludeFromFailureFile>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>

The pmd-exclude.properties file has the following content:

com.example.ClassWithLotsOfStaticImports=TooManyStaticImports

When I execude mvn clean pmd:check, I get a violation for ClassWithLotsOfStaticImports. It works with 3.0 and 3.1. I've testet several version above 3.1.