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Elliotte Rusty Harold edited comment on MPMD-391 at 1/26/24 8:40 PM:
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Yes, this crosses a lot of projects. It does surface here.
Also printing the actual issue PMD flagged should also be in our control. Even
if PMD only writes that into a file, we should parse the data out of that file
and print the problem here.
was (Author: elharo):
Yes, this crosses a lot of projects. It does surface here.
Also printing the actual issue PMD flagged should also be in out control. Even
if PMD only writes that into a file, we should parse the data out of that file
and print the problem here.
> Log what developers care about and not what they don't
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: MPMD-391
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPMD-391
> Project: Maven PMD Plugin
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Elliotte Rusty Harold
> Priority: Major
>
> Here's output from a recent PMD plugin run that failed:
> [INFO] >>> maven-pmd-plugin:3.21.2:check (default-cli) > :pmd @ commons-io >>>
> [INFO]
> [INFO] --- maven-pmd-plugin:3.21.2:pmd (pmd) @ commons-io ---
> [INFO] PMD version: 6.55.0
> [INFO] Rendering content with
> org.apache.maven.skins:maven-default-skin:jar:1.3 skin.
> [INFO]
> [INFO] <<< maven-pmd-plugin:3.21.2:check (default-cli) < :pmd @ commons-io <<<
> [INFO]
> [INFO]
> [INFO] --- maven-pmd-plugin:3.21.2:check (default-cli) @ commons-io ---
> [INFO] PMD version: 6.55.0
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Total time: 05:22 min
> [INFO] Finished at: 2024-01-14T14:11:30Z
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Error: Failed to execute goal
> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-pmd-plugin:3.21.2:check (default-cli) on
> project commons-io: You have 1 PMD violation. For more details see:
> /home/runner/work/commons-io/commons-io/target/pmd.xml -> [Help 1]
> Error:
> Error: To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e
> switch.
> Error: Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
> Error:
> Error: For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please
> read the following articles:
> Error: [Help 1]
> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureException
> Error: Process completed with exit code 1.
> Things I don't care about that are printed:
> * PMD version
> * Doxia skin
> * Blank lines
> * Total time
> * Timestamp when it finished
> * Generic information about Mojo failures
> * Exit code from Mojo
> The one thing I care about:
> * The actual error that caused the failure
> Everything in the first list can be hidden in some random log file no one
> will ever look at. Everything in the second list should be front and center.
> Instead Maven gets this exactly backwards,
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