Re: Unable to initialize a new user defined check class

Ok never mind. The error was fixed by entering a fully qualified classname
for module name as follows:

<module name="tools.ManualSteps"/>

Thanks

Bhavana

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Bhavana <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello everyone
>
>
> This is my first post here. I just got started with Checkstyle. I wrote a
> new Check and I'm trying to make it work using ant.
>
> The following are the contents of my ant target:
>
> <project name="checkstyle1" default="" basedir="."
> xmlns:cs="antlib:com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle">
> <target name="runCS">
> <cs:checkstyle
> config="..\config\mychecks.xml"
> file="..\java\src\tools\SomeJavaFile.java"/>
>     </target>
> </project>
>
> This what my config file contains:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>
> <!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
>     "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.2//EN"
>     "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_2.dtd">
>
> <module name="Checker">
>     <module name="TreeWalker">
>         <module name="ManualSteps"/>
>     </module>
>
> </module>
>
> I get the following error when I run ant runCS -verbose
>
> runCS:
> parsing buildfile
> jar:file:/C:/dev/tools/ant/apache-ant-1.6.5/lib/checkstyle-all
> -4.4.jar!/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/antlib.xml with URI =
> jar:file:/C:/dev
>
> /tools/ant/apache-ant-1.6.5/lib/checkstyle-all-4.4.jar!/com/puppycrawl/tools/che
> ckstyle/antlib.xml
> [cs:checkstyle] checkstyle version 4.4
> [cs:checkstyle] compiled on Mon December 17 2007, 08:39 EST
> [cs:checkstyle] Total execution took 109 ms.
>
> BUILD FAILED
> C:\EXTEND~1\build\build-checkstyle.xml:5: Unable to cr
> eate a Checker: cannot initialize module TreeWalker - Unable to instantiate
> Manu
> alSteps
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.CheckStyleTask.createChecker(CheckSty
> leTask.java:386)
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.CheckStyleTask.realExecute(CheckStyle
> Task.java:304)
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.CheckStyleTask.execute(CheckStyleTask
> .java:265)
>         at
> org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275)
>         at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364)
>         at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:341)
>         at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:369)
>         at
> org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1216)
>         at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1185)
>         at
> org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExe
> cutor.java:40)
>         at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1068)
>         at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:668)
>         at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:187)
>         at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:246)
>         at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:67)
> Caused by: com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.CheckstyleException: cannot
> initi
> alize module TreeWalker - Unable to instantiate ManualSteps
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.Checker.setupChild(Checker.java:165)
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean.configure(Automatic
> Bean.java:208)
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.CheckStyleTask.createChecker(CheckSty
> leTask.java:377)
>         ... 14 more
> Caused by: com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.CheckstyleException: Unable
> to in
> stantiate ManualSteps
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.PackageObjectFactory.createModule(Pac
> kageObjectFactory.java:152)
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.TreeWalker.setupChild(TreeWalker.java
> :213)
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean.configure(Automatic
> Bean.java:208)
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.Checker.setupChild(Checker.java:144)
>         ... 16 more
> Caused by: com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.CheckstyleException: Unable
> to in
> stantiate ManualStepsCheck
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.PackageObjectFactory.doMakeObject(Pac
> kageObjectFactory.java:94)
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.PackageObjectFactory.createModule(Pac
> kageObjectFactory.java:149)
>         ... 19 more
> --- Nested Exception ---
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.CheckstyleException: cannot initialize
> modul
> e TreeWalker - Unable to instantiate ManualSteps
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.Checker.setupChild(Checker.java:165)
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean.configure(Automatic
> Bean.java:208)
> Bean.java:208)
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.CheckStyleTask.createChecker(CheckSty
> leTask.java:377)
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.CheckStyleTask.realExecute(CheckStyle
> Task.java:304)
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.CheckStyleTask.execute(CheckStyleTask
> .java:265)
>         at
> org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275)
>         at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364)
>         at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:341)
>         at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:369)
>         at
> org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1216)
>         at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1185)
>         at
> org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExe
> cutor.java:40)
>         at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1068)
>         at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:668)
>         at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:187)
>         at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:246)
>         at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:67)
> Caused by: com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.CheckstyleException: Unable
> to in
> stantiate ManualSteps
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.PackageObjectFactory.createModule(Pac
> kageObjectFactory.java:152)
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.TreeWalker.setupChild(TreeWalker.java
> :213)
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean.configure(Automatic
> Bean.java:208)
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.Checker.setupChild(Checker.java:144)
>         ... 16 more
> Caused by: com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.CheckstyleException: Unable
> to in
> stantiate ManualStepsCheck
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.PackageObjectFactory.doMakeObject(Pac
> kageObjectFactory.java:94)
>         at
> com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.PackageObjectFactory.createModule(Pac
> kageObjectFactory.java:149)
>         ... 19 more
>
> Total time: 0 seconds
>
>
>
>
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bhavana
>
>
> --
> Bhavana
>



-- 
Bhavana Rehani

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