Question

Running findbugs within Maven

Asked by: stephaneeybert

Dear all,

I'm trying to run findbugs from within a maven pom.xml file.

I can run the following maven command fine:

mvn findbugs:findbugs

and I get a successfull run.

But I would like to see something happening, like a report being produced or a warning for potential bugs.. just something.

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building MyCode
[INFO]    task-segment: [findbugs:findbugs]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Preparing findbugs:findbugs
[INFO] [resources:resources]
[INFO] Using default encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] [compiler:compile]
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO] [findbugs:findbugs]
[INFO]   No effort provided, using default effort.
[INFO]   Using normal threshold.
[INFO]   Using FindBugs Version: 1.2.1
[INFO]   Using normal threshold.
[INFO]   Using normal threshold.
[INFO]   Debugging is Off
[INFO]   No bug include filter.
[INFO]   No bug exclude filter.
[INFO]
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Reactor Summary:
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] ....................................... SUCCESS [8.937s]
[INFO] Shared ................................ SUCCESS [34.174s]
[INFO] Arkiv ................................. SUCCESS [6.375s]
[INFO] User Administration ................... SUCCESS [1.672s]
[INFO] Filpostkasse .......................... SUCCESS [2.110s]
[INFO] Webfaktura ............................ SUCCESS [34.423s]
[INFO] Common ................................ SUCCESS [22.830s]
[INFO] auth - WebSeal ........................ SUCCESS [5.578s]
[INFO] auth - BankId ......................... SUCCESS [4.141s]
[INFO] Branding .............................. SUCCESS [4.313s]
[INFO] Web Deployment test ................... SUCCESS [4.578s]
[INFO] Meny .................................. SUCCESS [6.657s]
[INFO] Mail .................................. SUCCESS [2.219s]
[INFO] Transhist ............................. SUCCESS [14.017s]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 2 minutes 35 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Fri Feb 20 09:55:40 CET 2009
[INFO] Final Memory: 46M/63M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                  
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Answers

 

by: stephaneeybertPosted on 2009-02-22 at 09:17:47ID: 23705544

Hello,

I looked for more zones but could not find any.

I guess it's in the field of Java project automation.

Maven is cross platform Linux and Windows.

It is used to build software projects.

I can't think of anything more to tell you.

Sorry.

Thanks anyway.

 

by: objectsPosted on 2009-02-22 at 15:12:02ID: 23707067

whats your pom look like?

you need to specify the report details in the pom
http://mojo.codehaus.org/findbugs-maven-plugin/usage.html

 

by: stephaneeybertPosted on 2009-02-23 at 05:43:39ID: 23710958

Hi Savant,

Yes I'd seen that web page at the url you give.

But I couldn't figure out which value to specify in the xmlOutputDirectory property.

 

by: stephaneeybertPosted on 2009-02-23 at 05:49:51ID: 23711028

Here is the result I get on my project when I run the command
mvn findbugs:findbugs

[INFO] Preparing findbugs:findbugs
[INFO] [resources:resources]
[INFO] Using default encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] [compiler:compile]
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO] [findbugs:findbugs]
[INFO]   No effort provided, using default effort.
[INFO]   Using normal threshold.
[INFO]   Using FindBugs Version: 1.2.1
[INFO]   Using normal threshold.
[INFO]   Using normal threshold.
[INFO]   Using the xdoc format
[INFO]   No effort provided, using default effort.
[INFO]   Using normal threshold.
[INFO]   Using normal threshold.
[INFO]   Debugging is Off
[INFO]   No bug include filter.
[INFO]   No bug exclude filter.
[INFO] Printing Errors
[INFO] Printing Missing classes
[INFO] Printing Source Roots

And my pom.xml file plugin looks like:

            <plugin>
              <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
              <artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
              <configuration>
                <threshold>Normal</threshold>
                <relaxed>true</relaxed>
                <xmlOutput>true</xmlOutput>
              </configuration>
            </plugin>

 

by: objectsPosted on 2009-02-23 at 14:52:13ID: 23716566

       <xmlOutputDirectory>directory location of findbugs xdoc xml report</xmlOutputDirectory>

 

by: stephaneeybertPosted on 2009-02-23 at 21:24:39ID: 23718520

Hi Savant,

Yepp I had seen that property only I don't know what to put in there.

It is an absolute path, relative to some project root..?

I guess I have to do some try and error..

Cheers

 

by: objectsPosted on 2009-02-23 at 21:31:34ID: 23718552

absolute is generally the safest, relative is typically relative to where it is being run

 

by: stephaneeybertPosted on 2009-02-23 at 22:12:19ID: 23718707

All right. Thanks. I shall try that.

 

by: stephaneeybertPosted on 2009-02-26 at 00:57:36ID: 23742720

Hello,

In fact I did not use the property xmlOutputDirectory and I could see the report anyway. I guess this property was not needed.

Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

Now I have an issue with my configuration of findbugs and maybe you would have an idea..

I'd like findbugs not to report the bugs of type UwF: Field not initialized in constructor (UWF_FIELD_NOT_INITIALIZED_IN_CONSTRUCTOR)

http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/bugDescriptions.html#UWF_FIELD_NOT_INITIALIZED_IN_CONSTRUCTOR

You would know how to configure findbugs so as it does not report these..?

Cheers

 

by: objectsPosted on 2009-02-26 at 14:40:38ID: 23750848

> In fact I did not use the property xmlOutputDirectory and I could see the report anyway. I guess this property was not needed.

depends if u are happy with default location or not

> You would know how to configure findbugs so as it does not report these..?

not sure if you can filter out specific bugs
the following option looks hopeful but it is not documented very well

        <excludeFilterFile>findbugs-exclude.xml</excludeFilterFile>


 

by: stephaneeybertPosted on 2009-02-26 at 23:15:19ID: 23753361

Yeah, there are the includeFilter and excludeFilter, but what to put in there.. I wonder how people can use findbugs with such a skinny doc..

 

by: stephaneeybertPosted on 2009-02-26 at 23:16:19ID: 23753368

Anyway, thanks for your kind suggestions, I can't have you wait any longer.
Cheers

 

by: objectsPosted on 2009-02-26 at 23:32:35ID: 23753444

yes its not documented real well, seems the way with a lot of maven plugins.

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