Have you considered only running the checkstyle goal, from the parent so it processes all modules, before the full build goal(s)?
On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 9:27 AM <org.apache.maven.u...@io7m.com> wrote: > Hello! > > I've been using the maven-checkstyle-plugin for many years now. Almost > all of my projects are heavily multi-module, and I have a fairly > traditional setup where a checkstyle plugin execution is defined in > my organization-wide POM, and inherited by all modules in all projects. > I run checkstyle in the process-sources phase and refuse to build > code if there are style errors: > > https://github.com/io7m/primogenitor/blob/develop/pom.xml#L503 > > This works well enough in the sense that I don't have to repeat any > configuration information, and I can opt-out of checking on a per-module > basis if necessary by setting checkstyle.skip in the module's properties. > > Where it _doesn't_ work well enough is that I really want to, for a > given project, get all style errors in all modules before anything else > in the build proceeds. I have projects where style checks succeed in > module A, and then module B takes a minute or so to build, and then a > style check fails in module C. I'd prefer to style check modules A, B, > and C ahead of time so that I don't have to sit through a time-consuming > build of B just to have C fail. > > There doesn't seem to be a nice way to configure this. Ideally I would > want checkstyle to check all sources matching a given pattern > ("*/src/main/java/**.java", probably). Even if I _could_ get the plugin > to do this, it's not clear how I would preserve the ability to opt-out > of checking on a per-module basis. I'm aware of the source-level > comments like // CHECKSTYLE:OFF and so on, but I prefer to put this kind > of thing in the POM. > > Anyone got any ideas? > > -- > Mark Raynsford | https://www.io7m.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
