Question

I am building my application using ANT and I am checking my code for any Findbugs violations.

Now, my objective is to stop the build whenever my code contains particular findbug violation.

Is this possible using ANT & Findbugs?

N.B. Preferably not to write to any custom class.

Answer 1

Use the warningsProperty attribute on your findbugs task to set a property for any warnings:

<findbugs ... warningsProperty="findbugsFailure"/> 

and fail task if warnings are produced:

<fail if="findbugsFailure">

For example:

  <property name="findbugs.home" value="/export/home/daveho/work/findbugs" />

  <target name="findbugs" depends="jar">

    <findbugs home="${findbugs.home}"
              output="xml"
              outputFile="bcel-fb.xml" 
              warningsProperty="findbugsFailure">
      <auxClasspath path="${basedir}/lib/Regex.jar" />
      <sourcePath path="${basedir}/src/java" />
      <class location="${basedir}/bin/bcel.jar" />
    </findbugs>

    <fail if="findbugsFailure">

  </target>