Question

I’m trying to use checkstyle for a java project but I can’t seem to get it working properly:

While it apparently runs smoothly, the html report doesn’t give any info per authors as it should, i.e. the authors table is empty.

The thing is I don’t know how checkstyle identify an author. Does it look at the java doc tag @author ? at the class level or at the method level ?

The ant task I used is below:

<taskdef resource="checkstyletask.properties" classpath="${libs.dir}/checkstyle-all-5.0.jar"/>
<target name="checkstyle" description="Generates a report of code convention violations.">
        <mkdir dir="${checkstyle.dir}"/>
    <checkstyle config="${util.dir}/checkstyle/sun_checks.xml" failureProperty="checkstyle.failure" failOnViolation="false">
        <formatter type="xml" tofile="${checkstyle.dir}/checkstyle_report.xml"/>
        <fileset dir="${src.dir}" includes="**/*.java"/>
    </checkstyle>
  <xslt in="${checkstyle.dir}/checkstyle_report.xml" out="${checkstyle.dir}/checkstyle_report.html" style="${util.dir}/checkstyle/checkstyle-author.xsl"/>
</target>

Many thanks for your help

David

Answer 1

In the end, I gave up… contact the author of this contributed piece of code but no reply.
Moved back to using the somewhat simpler schema checkstyle-simpler.xsl instead