how to config sub module target dir

[sinkcup]

now docs is one target dir:

<violation>
  <parser>CHECKSTYLE</parser>
  <reporter>Checkstyle</reporter>
  <folder>.</folder>
  <pattern>.*/target/checkstyle-result\.xml$</pattern>
</violation>

does this plugin support sub module target dir?

such as:

JavaProject/
--pom.xml
--UserService/
----pom.xml
----target/checkstyle-result.xml
--WikiService/
----pom.xml
----target/checkstyle-result.xml

should I change the folder or pattern?

what's the "folder" config meaning?

[tomasbjerre]

Yes, and it looks like the regexp in your issue will match the reports in your issue.

Folder is the base dir to recursively look for matching files in.

[sinkcup]

no, it's only for root project, not for sub project:

<folder>.</folder>
<pattern>.*/target/pmd\.xml$</pattern>

and these are useless too:

<folder>.</folder>
<pattern>.*/.*/target/pmd\.xml$</pattern>

<folder>.</folder>
<pattern>.*/sub-project/target/pmd\.xml$</pattern>
or
<pattern>./sub-project/target/pmd\.xml$</pattern>

<folder>sub-project</folder>
<pattern>.*/target/pmd\.xml$</pattern>

<folder>./sub-project</folder>
<pattern>.*/target/pmd\.xml$</pattern>

[sinkcup]

maven plugin failed, npx cli succeed:

npx violations-command-line -cc code-climate-report.json \
 -v "PMD" "." ".*/target/pmd\.xml$" "PMD"

[tomasbjerre]

Did you run mvn verify? And have the plugin run last. So that the analysis is done before the plugin parses it.

[sinkcup]

sure, I have run mvn validate, and it outputs "success" but no report in multi-java-project.

in another single Java project, it's fine.