Re: [Clirr-devel] Blog post on Clirr...

[Simon K. <ski...@ap...>]

On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 15:00 +0100, Vincent Massol wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I just wrote a post on Clirr: http://tinyurl.com/84lbb
> 
> The good news is that Brett Porter is currently developing a m2 plugin for
> Clirr and that we'll be featuring it in our forthcoming maven2 book! :-)

That's excellent news! I look forward to having the m2 plugin available.

> 
> In my blog post I hint at a feature that I think could be improved in Clirr:
> fine-grained exclusions, i.e. the ability to exclude a violation. Right now
> I think the only possibility is to exclude a whole file, right?

If you're talking about the clirr feature that allows a build to fail
when an API has changed, then I think that would be an excellent
addition.

For report generation, it should be possible right now to use the xml
output option and apply an xslt to remove any unwanted entries. Of
course some more direct way to specify that certain issues should be
suppressed in the output report would be useful too.

Any suggestion how these exceptions might be specified? eg
  --exclude classname:problemId
That would exclude *all* occurrences of a particular problem type in
that class, though, which is probably too much. Line numbers are
probably not possible. Method-name is only applicable in some cases.

Cheers,

Simon