-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Garvin LeClaire schrieb: > What data do you feel is missing? For instance the standard XML format includes ranges of line numbers, while the maven-plugin only reports a single line number. Further there are extra infos like the byte-code position or wether a method is static. Those are not really important to me. Anyhow you can not say that the formats are equivalent and can be transformed bijective...
I do not want to say that the output produced via ant is nice, but for people who have developed a backend that can handle this output, the maven plugin is not an acceptable alternative to switch the build over from ant to maven... > > > > -- > Regards, Regards Jörg > > > Garvin LeClaire > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On 5/11/07, *Joerg Hohwiller* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi there, >> I think the findbugs-maven report format is more appropriate to > Maven. I >> wrote both reporters and the Maven one seems to accommodate the other >> plugins that require xml output such as dashboard, xradar and qaLab. >> At this point we would need to get a consensus on any changes that > would >> impact other plugins. >> You could create stylesheet to transform the format. What is it > you are >> trying to use the xml for? > I also have a problem with this. > As far as I can see the findbugs tool is capable of creating the XML > output. > The ANT task just calls the findbugs tool to create it. > However the maven-plugin goes its own way. > The problem is that the maven findbugs xml output is missing information > that is available in the default xml format. Therefore you will not > be able to > create a stylesheet and do the transformation because the stylesheet > can not > magically figure out what is not already there... > > >> I wrote the original findbugs xdoc writer as well as the Maven 2 > version so >> I do have a familiarity with the code if you have any questions. > Okay so you are the perfect adressee for this toppic. Would you be > willing to > support an optional option to make the findbugs-plugin for maven > create the > default xml output format? > Should I add a feature request to JIRA? > > If I got you right, the format can not be changed generally because > other tools > like dashboard relies on the format as it is produces now. Is that > correct? > > >> -- >> Regards, > > >> Garvin LeClaire >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cheers > Jörg - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGXzw4mPuec2Dcv/8RAtS+AKCZV7UzeZwzrDMoxPwy3skVNHnQzwCfb4mZ f+XrZQFHfILfhwKHsxJCZeU= =ZhzW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
