bmarwell commented on a change in pull request #44:
URL: 
https://github.com/apache/maven-checkstyle-plugin/pull/44#discussion_r563372857



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File path: 
src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/checkstyle/rss/VelocityTemplate.java
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@@ -77,52 +79,34 @@ public VelocityComponent getVelocity()
      * Using a specified Velocity Template and provided context, create the 
outputFilename.
      *
      * @param outputFilename the file to be generated.
-     * @param template       the velocity template to use.
-     * @param context        the velocity context map.
-     * @throws VelocityException if the template was not found or any other 
Velocity exception.
-     * @throws MojoExecutionException if merging the velocity template failed.
-     * @throws IOException if there was an error when writing to the output 
file.
+     * @param template       the velocity template to use
+     * @param context        the velocity context map
+     * @throws VelocityException if the template was not found or any other 
Velocity exception
+     * @throws MojoExecutionException if merging the velocity template failed
+     * @throws IOException if there was an error writing to the output file
      */
     public void generate( String outputFilename, String template, Context 
context )
         throws VelocityException, MojoExecutionException, IOException
     {
-        Writer writer = null;
 
-        try
+        File f = new File( outputFilename );
+        if ( !f.getParentFile().exists() )
+        {
+            f.getParentFile().mkdirs();
+        }
+        
+        try ( Writer writer = new OutputStreamWriter( new FileOutputStream( f 
), StandardCharsets.UTF_8 ) )
         {

Review comment:
       Can you pick a more descriptive variable name for 'f' here? We have 
`outputFilename` already, so `outputFile` would be an obvious choice.




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