Adding package suppressions in Checkstyle and Spotbugs
I was recently trying to add a package level suppression in both checkstyle / spotbugs and found it to be having weird syntax.
For checkstyle,
First add a module in your checkstyle configuration file
<module name="SuppressionFilter">
<property name="file" value="./suppressions.xml"/>
</module>
And then in the suppressions.xml
, specify the package as follows:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE suppressions PUBLIC
"-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Suppressions 1.1//EN"
"http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/suppressions_1_1.dtd">
<suppressions>
<suppress files="[\\/]com[\\/]domain[\\/]package" checks="."/>
</suppressions>
For, Spotbugs, you specify the package level suppression in the exclude file as follows
<FindBugsFilter>
<Match>
<Package name="~com\.domain\.package.*"/>
</Match>
</FindBugsFilter>