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[maven-checkstyle-plugin] 01/01: [MCHECKSTYLE-357] - Allow inline configuration for reporting

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commit 94b9805df8f827d9ee7ab04e158c4cb5ed6918f2
Author: Peter Lamby <pe...@web.de>
AuthorDate: Thu Dec 6 14:20:49 2018 +0100

    [MCHECKSTYLE-357] - Allow inline configuration for reporting
---
 src/it/MCHECKSTYLE-357/LICENSE.txt                 | 202 +++++++++++++++++++++
 src/it/MCHECKSTYLE-357/invoker.properties          |  20 ++
 src/it/MCHECKSTYLE-357/pom.xml                     | 194 ++++++++++++++++++++
 src/it/MCHECKSTYLE-357/src/main/java/cat/App.java  |  37 ++++
 src/it/MCHECKSTYLE-357/verify.groovy               |  31 ++++
 .../checkstyle/AbstractCheckstyleReport.java       |  62 +++++++
 6 files changed, 546 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/it/MCHECKSTYLE-357/LICENSE.txt b/src/it/MCHECKSTYLE-357/LICENSE.txt
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diff --git a/src/it/MCHECKSTYLE-357/invoker.properties b/src/it/MCHECKSTYLE-357/invoker.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0ed555b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/it/MCHECKSTYLE-357/invoker.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+invoker.goals=clean site
+# checkstyleRules requires Maven 3+
+invoker.maven.version = 3.0+
diff --git a/src/it/MCHECKSTYLE-357/pom.xml b/src/it/MCHECKSTYLE-357/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dea4133
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/it/MCHECKSTYLE-357/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,194 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  ~ or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  ~ distributed with this work for additional information
+  ~ regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  ~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  ~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
+  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  ~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  ~
+  -->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <groupId>com.basistech</groupId>
+    <artifactId>MCHECKSTYLE-357</artifactId>
+    <description>Tests that the report uses the inline configuration.</description>
+    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <properties>
+        <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
+        <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+    </properties>
+    <build>
+        <pluginManagement>
+            <plugins>
+                <plugin>
+                    <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>3.7.1</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>3.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+                    <configuration>
+                        <checkstyleRules>
+                            <module name="Checker">
+                                <property name="charset" value="UTF-8" />
+                                <property name="severity" value="error" />
+
+                                <module name="TreeWalker">
+                                    <property name="tabWidth" value="3" />
+
+                                    <module name="RegexpSinglelineJava">
+                                        <property name="format" value="^\t*(?! \*) " />
+                                        <property name="message"
+                                            value="Indent must use tab characters" />
+                                    </module>
+
+                                    <!-- Annotations -->
+                                    <module name="AnnotationUseStyle" />
+                                    <module name="MissingDeprecated">
+                                        <property name="skipNoJavadoc" value="true" />
+                                    </module>
+                                    <module name="MissingOverride" />
+                                    <module name="PackageAnnotation" />
+
+                                    <!-- Blocks -->
+                                    <module name="EmptyCatchBlock">
+                                        <property name="exceptionVariableName"
+                                            value="expected|ignore" />
+                                    </module>
+                                    <module name="LeftCurly">
+                                        <property name="option" value="nlow" />
+                                        <property name="ignoreEnums" value="false" />
+                                    </module>
+                                    <module name="NeedBraces">
+                                        <property name="allowSingleLineStatement"
+                                            value="true" />
+                                    </module>
+                                    <module name="RightCurly" />
+
+                                    <!-- Class design -->
+                                    <module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor" />
+                                    <module name="InnerTypeLast" />
+                                    <module name="InterfaceIsType" />
+                                    <module name="OneTopLevelClass" />
+
+                                    <!-- Coding -->
+                                    <module name="CovariantEquals" />
+                                    <module name="DeclarationOrder" />
+                                    <module name="DefaultComesLast" />
+                                    <module name="EmptyStatement" />
+                                    <module name="EqualsHashCode" />
+                                    <module name="ExplicitInitialization" />
+                                    <module name="MissingSwitchDefault" />
+                                    <module name="MultipleStringLiterals">
+                                        <property name="allowedDuplicates" value="4" />
+                                    </module>
+                                    <module name="OneStatementPerLine" />
+                                    <module name="OverloadMethodsDeclarationOrder" />
+                                    <module name="PackageDeclaration" />
+                                    <module name="StringLiteralEquality" />
+                                    <module name="UnnecessaryParentheses" />
+
+                                    <!-- Imports -->
+                                    <module name="AvoidStarImport" />
+                                    <module name="CustomImportOrder">
+                                        <property name="customImportOrderRules"
+                                            value="THIRD_PARTY_PACKAGE###STANDARD_JAVA_PACKAGE###STATIC" />
+                                    </module>
+                                    <module name="RedundantImport" />
+                                    <module name="UnusedImports">
+                                        <property name="processJavadoc" value="false" />
+                                    </module>
+
+                                    <!-- Javadoc -->
+                                    <module name="AtclauseOrder" />
+
+                                    <!-- Misc -->
+                                    <module name="ArrayTypeStyle" />
+                                    <module name="OuterTypeFilename" />
+                                    <module name="CommentsIndentation" />
+                                    <module name="Indentation">
+                                        <property name="basicOffset" value="3" />
+                                        <property name="caseIndent" value="0" />
+                                        <property name="lineWrappingIndentation" value="6" />
+                                    </module>
+                                    <module name="TodoComment">
+                                        <property name="format" value="(TODO)|(FIXME)" />
+                                    </module>
+                                    <module name="UpperEll" />
+
+                                    <!-- Modifiers -->
+                                    <module name="ModifierOrder" />
+                                    <module name="RedundantModifier" />
+
+                                    <!-- Naming -->
+                                    <module name="ConstantName" />
+
+                                    <!-- Sizes -->
+                                    <module name="LineLength">
+                                        <property name="max" value="120" />
+                                    </module>
+                                </module>
+
+                                <module name="RegexpSingleline">
+                                    <!-- Check trailing whitespace -->
+                                    <property name="format" value="\s+$" />
+                                </module>
+
+                                <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile">
+                                    <property name="lineSeparator" value="lf" />
+                                </module>
+                                <module name="UniqueProperties" />
+                            </module>
+                        </checkstyleRules>
+                    </configuration>
+                    <dependencies>
+                        <dependency>
+                            <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
+                            <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
+                            <version>8.15</version>
+                        </dependency>
+                    </dependencies>
+                    <executions>
+                        <execution>
+                            <goals>
+                                <goal>check</goal>
+                            </goals>
+                        </execution>
+                    </executions>
+                </plugin>
+            </plugins>
+        </pluginManagement>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
+    <reporting>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <reportSets>
+                     <reportSet>
+                         <reports>
+                             <report>checkstyle</report>
+                         </reports>
+                     </reportSet>
+                </reportSets>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </reporting>
+</project>
+
diff --git a/src/it/MCHECKSTYLE-357/src/main/java/cat/App.java b/src/it/MCHECKSTYLE-357/src/main/java/cat/App.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d6716a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/it/MCHECKSTYLE-357/src/main/java/cat/App.java
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package cat;
+
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Hello world!
+ *
+ */
+public class App 
+{
+    public static void main( String[] args )
+    {
+    	Object[] bucket = new Object[12345];
+    	String y = args[0];
+    	Object x = bucket[ Math.abs(y.hashCode()) % bucket.length];
+    	System.out.println( "Hello World!"  + x);
+        x = bucket[ y.hashCode() % bucket.length];
+        System.out.println( "Hello World!"  + x);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/it/MCHECKSTYLE-357/verify.groovy b/src/it/MCHECKSTYLE-357/verify.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9609b0b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/it/MCHECKSTYLE-357/verify.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+assert new File(basedir, 'target/site/checkstyle.html').exists();
+
+assert new File(basedir, 'target/checkstyle-cachefile').exists();
+assert new File(basedir, 'target/checkstyle-checker.xml').exists();
+assert new File(basedir, 'target/checkstyle-header.txt').exists();
+assert new File(basedir, 'target/checkstyle-result.xml').exists();
+assert new File(basedir, 'target/checkstyle-rules.xml').exists();
+
+File rssFile = new File( basedir, 'target/site/checkstyle.rss' );
+assert rssFile.exists();
+
+return true;
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/checkstyle/AbstractCheckstyleReport.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/checkstyle/AbstractCheckstyleReport.java
index 950f116..6c5130b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/checkstyle/AbstractCheckstyleReport.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/checkstyle/AbstractCheckstyleReport.java
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ import org.apache.maven.plugins.checkstyle.rss.CheckstyleRssGenerator;
 import org.apache.maven.plugins.checkstyle.rss.CheckstyleRssGeneratorRequest;
 import org.apache.maven.reporting.AbstractMavenReport;
 import org.apache.maven.reporting.MavenReportException;
+import org.codehaus.plexus.configuration.PlexusConfiguration;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.resource.ResourceManager;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.resource.loader.FileResourceLoader;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.util.FileUtils;
@@ -73,6 +74,10 @@ public abstract class AbstractCheckstyleReport
 
     protected static final String JAVA_FILES = "**\\/*.java";
 
+    private static final String CHECKSTYLE_FILE_HEADER = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n"
+            + "<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC \"-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN\"\n"
+            + "        \"http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd\">\n";
+
     /**
      * Specifies the cache file used to speed up Checkstyle on successive runs.
      */
@@ -403,6 +408,40 @@ public abstract class AbstractCheckstyleReport
     private boolean omitIgnoredModules;
 
     /**
+     * By using this property, you can specify the whole Checkstyle rules
+     * inline directly inside this pom.
+     *
+     * <pre>
+     * &lt;plugin&gt;
+     *   ...
+     *   &lt;configuration&gt;
+     *     &lt;checkstyleRules&gt;
+     *       &lt;module name="Checker"&gt;
+     *         &lt;module name="FileTabCharacter"&gt;
+     *           &lt;property name="eachLine" value="true" /&gt;
+     *         &lt;/module&gt;
+     *         &lt;module name="TreeWalker"&gt;
+     *           &lt;module name="EmptyBlock"/&gt;
+     *         &lt;/module&gt;
+     *       &lt;/module&gt;
+     *     &lt;/checkstyleRules&gt;
+     *   &lt;/configuration&gt;
+     *   ...
+     * </pre>
+     *
+     * @since 2.12
+     */
+    @Parameter
+    private PlexusConfiguration checkstyleRules;
+
+    /**
+     * Dump file for inlined Checkstyle rules.
+     */
+    @Parameter( property = "checkstyle.output.rules.file",
+                    defaultValue = "${project.build.directory}/checkstyle-rules.xml" )
+    private File rulesFiles;
+
+    /**
      */
     @Component
     protected ResourceManager locator;
@@ -451,7 +490,30 @@ public abstract class AbstractCheckstyleReport
         // locator = new Locator( new MojoLogMonitorAdaptor( getLog() ) );
 
         // locator = new Locator( getLog(), new File( project.getBuild().getDirectory() ) );
+        if ( checkstyleRules != null )
+        {
+            if ( !"sun_checks.xml".equals( configLocation ) )
+            {
+                throw new MavenReportException( "If you use inline configuration for rules, don't specify "
+                        + "a configLocation" );
+            }
+            if ( checkstyleRules.getChildCount() > 1 )
+            {
+                throw new MavenReportException( "Currently only one root module is supported" );
+            }
+            PlexusConfiguration checkerModule = checkstyleRules.getChild( 0 );
 
+            try
+            {
+                FileUtils.forceMkdir( rulesFiles.getParentFile() );
+                FileUtils.fileWrite( rulesFiles, CHECKSTYLE_FILE_HEADER + checkerModule.toString() );
+            }
+            catch ( final IOException e )
+            {
+                throw new MavenReportException( e.getMessage(), e );
+            }
+            configLocation = rulesFiles.getAbsolutePath();
+        }
         ClassLoader currentClassLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
 
         try