Recent changes to feature-requests

Fail On Custom Priority Level

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:14:28 -0000

From the command line and maven plugin you can specify a specific priority level to fail on. In Eclipse however, only priority levels 1 and 2 (Error High and Error) are shown as failures. We also fail Warning High (priority 3) but in Eclipse this is shown as just a warning. Please could you add the option to specify the priority level to fail on.

Use URL for retrieving rulesets

Kevin — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:04:42 -0000

Keeping my development team (1000 users) on a current PMD ruleset is a challenge. Pushing out new ruleset xmls and asking developers to import is prone to problems. Here's one way I think we can make it simpler.

Allow PMD to be configured with a ruleset URL. PMD will download the ruleset from that URL and use it. If the URL is inaccessible (dev is working from home, for example), than just use the one downloaded last time.

Another idea would be to model how checkstyle works. With checkstyle you can create a plugin that extends a checkstyle extension point, allowing the configuration to be hard coded. That's easy to maintain as well, since we use an internal eclipse update site that includes our latest checkstyle extensions.

Either would be great for me. Thanks for the great work.

Support maven-pmd-plugin exclude's configuration from pom

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:44:15 -0000

For some reason, one may disable PMD checking on some files.
With the maven-pmd-plugin, he can do this by "excludes" or "excludeRoots" configuration (http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-pmd-plugin/pmd-mojo.html#excludes)
So this works well under maven, but in Eclipse, excluded files remains in red, which is annoying

Group exceptions by exception type

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:12:01 -0000

Currently, exceptions can be grouped by package name, by file name, or by package name/file name. Please provide the ability to group exceptions by exception type. This would allow developers to concentrate on particular exceptions across a potentially large number of files.

long operations to run with progress monitor

Miguel Griffa — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 19:27:53 -0000

ideally, these would have also the button that sends
the job to background, but at least a detailed progress
report and cancellation should be available

Add check license action

Miguel Griffa — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 20:21:20 -0000

This action would verify that LICENSE.txt is present in
each source file header, and add it if required

Smarter visitor

Miguel Griffa — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:34:06 -0000

The AST visitors should use a flag to indicate when a
file has been modified and thus, needs to be saved,
this would improve performance of many operations
singnificantly

Add .pmd.xml editor

Miguel Griffa — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 15:52:06 -0000

This editor shuold be very graphical, and may replace
the ugly UI of the current customization wizard

Use different builder name from official plugin

Miguel Griffa — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 13:38:20 -0000

This would enable both plugins to coexist happily

add nature from wizard

Miguel Griffa — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:52:04 -0000

When customizing with wizard, if project does not
contain pmd nature, prompt the user to add it