[RAT-243] Add Eclipse Checkstyle hidden file to useEclipseDefaultExcludes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.11, 0.12
• Fix Version/s: 0.13
• Component/s: Client - maven

Environment

Eclipse Oxygen, Checkstyle Plugin 8.0.0.201707161819

• Assignee: Philipp Ottlinger
• Reporter: Matthew Ouyang
• Created: 21/Oct/17 00:32
• Updated: 20/Mar/19 20:25
• Resolved: 21/Oct/17 18:54

Description

If you try to configure the Eclipse Checkstyle plugin on any project uses the RAT plugin, then it will fail the apache-rat:check goal automatically. This is because the Eclipse plugin generates a hidden file (.checkstyle) which will not have the required licence file. Since this file is not part of the artifact produced, it should be excluded from consideration by RAT. I used the Maven Clean plugin to reproduce this but any project that uses the RAT plugin will suffice.

Impact: Cannot use work on projects that depend on the RAT plugin in Eclipse if the Eclipse Checkstyle plugin is used.

Fix: Add .checkstyle to the list of exclusions. Build RAT with attached patch and rebuild Clean plugin with it. This is a short-term fix. A better fix would be to design a way register exclusions with RAT (eg Eclipse Checkstyle could register .checkstyle).