Hi, Passing a few arguments to the compiler is done easily enough through the pom, but when there are many arguments it starts to gets hairy, especially when I'm configuring a plugin in multiple levels of inheritance.
For example, there are many bugpatterns in errorprone https://errorprone.info/docs/flags I want my build pom to set the basic settings for the compiler <compilerArgs combine.children="append"> <arg>-Xlint:all,-serial,-processing</arg> <arg>-XDcompilePolicy=byfile</arg> <arg>-Xplugin:ErrorProne -XepExcludedPaths:.*/target/.* ${ep}</arg> </compilerArgs> And then my project can decide whether it want to override errorprone default levels for specific rules https://maven.apache.org/configure.html I can add this one line to maven.config -Dep=-Xep:ArgumentSelectionDefectChecker:WARN -Xep:AssertFalse:WARN -Xep:EqualsHashCode:WARN -Xep:AvoidObjectArrays:WARN -Xep:BareDotMetacharacter:WARN -Xep:CatchAndPrintStackTrace:WARN -Xep:OperatorPrecedence:WARN -Xep:StatementSwitchToExpressionSwitch:WARN -Xep:SuppressWarningsWithoutExplanation:WARN And that does the job. I can also quickly run a build to catch on issue that I'm trying to eradicate by adding -Dep="-XepDisableAllChecks -Xep:ReferenceEquality:ERROR" But having all those rules on one line makes reviewing changes a pain. I don't really want to config the whole build with the compiler arguments. Is there a way to specify these in a properties file and have each argument on its own line? Kind regards, Delany
