Checkstyle - Exclude folder

Question

I want to ignore a specific folder (named generated-sources) from my checkstyle reports, because they are generated.

I\'m using eclipse-cs for displaying my violatio

Answer 1

As pointed by Thomas Welsch in his answer, there appears to be a problem with using relative pathname for the suppression xml file.

For gradle builds, This gist suggests a workaround:

in build.gradle:

checkstyle {
    // use one common config file for all subprojects
    configFile = project(':').file('config/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml')
    configProperties = [ "suppressionFile" : project(':').file('config/checkstyle/suppressions.xml')]
 }

in checkstyle.xml:

(the default value allows IDE plugins, that do not have the gradle variable sorted out, to work correctly)