[MPMD-300] Unable to format output with custom renderer (CodeClimateRenderer)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.13.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.14.0
• Component/s: PMD
• Assignee: Andreas Dangel
• Reporter: João Taborda
• Created: 30/Mar/20 16:01
• Updated: 17/Sep/20 09:56
• Resolved: 09/Apr/20 18:04

Description

According to the plugin docs it should be possible to set a custom output format type through specifying the full class name of a renderer from the net.sourceforge.pmd.renderers package.

However it seems to fail when using e.g. the CodeClimateRenderer:

mvn pmd:pmd -Dformat=net.sourceforge.pmd.renderers.CodeClimateRenderer

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-pmd-plugin:3.13.0:pmd (default-cli) on project hello-world: Execution default-cli of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-pmd-plugin:3.13.0:pmd failed: org.apache.maven.reporting.MavenReportException: Can't find PMD custom format net.sourceforge.pmd.renderers.CodeClimateRenderer: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: net.sourceforge.pmd.renderers.CodeClimateRenderer.<init>(java.util.Properties)

Use case: this would be useful to integrate with gitlab CI pipelines which expects a code quality report in codeclimate json format.