[MPMD-344] Properties verbose and printFailingErrors are overlapping

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: PMD
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andreas Dangel
• Created: 08/Jun/22 17:17
• Updated: 08/Jun/22 17:17

Description

The two properties verbose and printFailingErrors do almost the same:

• verbose: Print details of check failures to build output. - this includes also violations that are only warnings and do not fail the build
• printFailingErrors: Print details of errors that cause build failure - this only includes violations that fail the build

If both options are enabled, then the violations the fail the build are printed twice.

The options should be handled more logically: If "verbose=true", then printFailingErrors can be ignored. If "verbose=false", then only print the failing errors if "printFailingErrors=true". That way, always the correct stuff should be printed.

Also the properties description (javadoc) should be improved with a better explanation.

Original issue reported here: https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/4001