23 June 2018
In a previous post I have described the minimal configuration to get checkstyle working with Gradle.
What i did not like, is that I have to place the checkstyle.xml in my project.
Assuming I stick with the standard checkstyle.xml from Google or Sun (or I have a corporate one), I do no want to place it in each and every repo.
What I found now is that Gradle supports referencing resources from within published artifacts.
In the below configuration, the google_checks.xml is referenced from the published artifact com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle:8.10.1 directly.
apply plugin: 'checkstyle'
configurations {
checkstyleConfig
}
def versions = [
checkstyle: '8.10.1',
]
dependencies {
checkstyleConfig ("com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle:${versions.checkstyle}") {
transitive = false
}
}
checkstyle {
showViolations = true
ignoreFailures = false
toolVersion = "${versions.checkstyle}"
config = resources.text.fromArchiveEntry(configurations.checkstyleConfig, 'google_checks.xml')
}The example is derived from the offical gradle docs.