How can I print reported bugs to console in gradle findbugs plugin?

Question

I am using Gradle FindBugs Plugin. How can I print reported bugs to console? PMD plugin has a consoleOutput property. Is there a similar property for FindBugs?

Shelve

is your question answered? – Nagging

So, you suggest that parse the report and print it, am I right? – Shelve

It seems that this is the only workaround for now. See my updated answer. – Nagging

My only purpose to print is to make easy to go line, which is reported by findbugs. I may use the ide plugin, which works perfect for this purpose but it is needed to be done this way unfortunately. I think I may sync the includefilter files of both ide and project config file. – Shelve

It seems that an IDE plugin will suit your needs perfectly. – Nagging

Answer 1

As you can see here there's no such property or configuration possibility for FindBugs plugin. However it seems that the plugin can be customized in some way. E.g. by parsing and displaying the results.

See here and here.

Nagging

Answer 2

This is rudimentary ... but it's a start

task checkFindBugsReport << {
    def xmlReport = findbugsMain.reports.xml
    if (!xmlReport.destination.exists()) return;
    def slurped = new XmlSlurper().parse(xmlReport.destination)
    def report = ""
    slurped['BugInstance'].eachWithIndex { bug, index ->
        report += "${index + 1}. Found bug risk ${bug.@'type'} of category ${bug.@'category'} "
        report += "in the following places"
        bug['SourceLine'].each { place ->
            report += "\n       ${place.@'classname'} at lines ${place.@'start'}:${place.@'end'}"
        }
    }
    if (report.length() > 1) {
        logger.error "[FINDBUGS]\n ${report}"
    }
}

findbugsMain.finalizedBy checkFindBugsReport

Continuator

can you share plugin dependencies also – Shortcake

Answer 3

You can do that with Violations Gradle Plugin. It is configured with patterns to identify report files and to run after check. It will

• Accumulate all static code analysis tools into a unified report.
• Print it to the build log.
• Optionally fail the build if there are too many violations.

Fiddler

Answer 4

Findbugs/Spotbugs come with a class that can run after analysis, read an xml report and print to text/html. It is included in the findbugs/spotbugs.jar file.

    <java classname="edu.umd.cs.findbugs.PrintingBugReporter" fork="true">
        <arg value="${build.dir}/findbugs/findbugs-test-report.xml"/>
        <classpath path="${spotbugs.home}/lib/spotbugs.jar"/>
    </java>

Which is same as running

java  -cp path/to/spotbugs.jar edu.umd.cs.findbugs.PrintingBugReporter  path/to/findbugs-report.xml

It has an -html option that will render html.

It should be feasible to achieve the same in gradle/maven.

Farouche