#1133 Eclipse workspace relative path to ruleset.xml

[Egon]

It would be helpful, if an Eclipse-workspace relative path could be used to refer to a ruleset, e.g. that serveral Eclipse projects can refer to the same ruleset.

An absolute path is not helpful for teams and "../" to another project does not seem to work with Eclipse 4.3 (at least when a start-option like "eclipse.exe -data %RCP_WORKSPACE%" is configuring a workspace location different from the location of the projects).

A solution could be analogous to Eclipse Checkstyle configuration: http://eclipse-cs.sourceforge.net/advanced_configtypes.html

• Project Relative Configuration
• Remote Configuration

Or realtive to path variables like ${workspace_loc} and ${project_loc}, see:
http://help.eclipse.org/kepler/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.user%2Fconcepts%2Fconcepts-exttools.htm
http://help.eclipse.org/kepler/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.user%2Fconcepts%2Fcpathvars.htm

This request is probably related to:

• 15 "Use URL for retrieving rulesets": https://sourceforge.net/p/pmd-eclipse/feature-requests/15/

• Discussion about "<rulesetfile>..\pmd.ruleset.xml</rulesetfile>": http://sourceforge.net/p/pmd-eclipse/discussion/457016/thread/1ebb7a4a

PMD Plug-in 4.0.1.v20130811-0001
Use the ruleset configured in a project file: ../mySolutions.ruleset
IllegalArgumentException: Path must include project and resource name: /mySolutions.ruleset
at net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.runtime.properties.impl.ProjectPropertiesImpl.getResolvedRuleSetFile(ProjectPropertiesImpl.java:268)
at net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.runtime.properties.impl.ProjectPropertiesImpl.isRuleSetFileExist(ProjectPropertiesImpl.java:260)
at net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.properties.PMDPropertyPageController.checkProjectRuleSetFile(PMDPropertyPageController.java:239)
at net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.properties.PMDPropertyPageController.performOk(PMDPropertyPageController.java:147)

[hkais]

same issue here. I am working in bigger teams, right now I am duplicating all pmd rules in every project into .pmd

My bug is also related with #1051 since this was my try to configure it for the team.
Developers, please fix this!

[Andreas Dangel]

This will be fixed/implemented with https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/36