Re: [Codenarc-developer] PMD Integration ?

[Romain P. <be...@gm...>]

On 27 January 2012 11:50, Hamlet DArcy <ham...@ca...> wrote:

> So is there a generic AST API that PMD will provide and we need to adapt
> CodeNarc to that?


Now, on our side, I just want to grab your groovy AST and add it to PMD, so
that PMD can support Groovy out of the box.


> One thing I really like about PMD is the XQuery syntax for rules. I have
> wanted to port that to CodeNarc but maybe what we need to do instead is
> port CodeNarc to PMD.
>

Well, it depends what you want to do. If you are thinking that PMD features
in terms of integration (Maven, Ant, Eclipse) and rules processing are good
enough for you, you may want to simply use add Groovy support to PMD, and
renaming the resulting product Codenarc. (ie clearly reducing the code
based you have to take care of).



> If there is a generic API then please send a link. I'd like to read it.
> There are many things that are possible in Java that are not possible in
> Groovy because there is no type information. How did ECMAScript handle that?
>

Well, the sad thing is that most of the work was done by Ryan Gustavson a
while back (2010/2011) and that he has stop working on it (he got a baby
which serioulsy dommaged his coding time :) ), so I cannot tell you about
such detail. I can just tail, we do have a somewhat working support for
ECMAScript.

Please, fell free to poke around PMD code (I'll do so for Codenarc's one ;)
) and ask us question if you are suprised.

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