Gradle - checkstyle config file in separate jar

[Haroon Sheikh]

Currently I have checkstyle config under a separate jar (dependency).

This is what I have in my build.gradle

apply plugin: 'checkstyle'

configurations {

    checkstyleDep

}

dependencies {

    checkstyleDep 'com.mycompany.tools:buildtools:1.0.1'

    compile 'com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle:7.3'

}

I've tried passing in the `getClass().getResourceAsStream("config/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml")` as the configFile but that's not working.

[Haroon Sheikh]

I've managed to to get working with using the following config:

checkstyle {

    ignoreFailures = true

    showViolations = true

    config = resources.text.fromArchiveEntry(configurations.checkstyleDep, 'config/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml')

}

However, the problem is `fromArchiveEntry` is incubating and I would like to know whether there a better alternative for referencing the config file from a dependency.

[Roman Ivanov]

Hi Haroon,

config could be loaded by file path, url, or path in classpath on runtime.

if jar where your config is located is not loaded to classpath during runtime of checkstyle - you need to load it with some other tools.

if jar where config is located is loaded to classpath during run of checkstyle you can simply do 

config = 'config/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml'

Checkstyle will try to load from url, from file,  then try classpath.

thanks,

Roman Ivanov

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