Re: ANT - Checkstyle with custom check

Well I removed the one in the classpath. This would explain why i had
problems in command line.
Now however I get the error:  Unable to create a Checker: cannot
initialize module PackageHtml - Unable to instantiate PackageHtml

Thomas Suckow



On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Oliver Burn <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is the "classic" classpath issue. Be sure that you do not have
> Checkstyle anywhere else in your classpath. Look in $ANT_HOME/lib.
>
> Also test using the declaration:
>
> <taskdef resource="checkstyletask.properties">
>         <classpath>
>                 <pathelement location="lib/Defcon1Checks.jar"/>
>         </classpath>
> </taskdef>
>
> If this gives the same results, it means that you have another version of
> Checkstyle in your classpath.
>
> Running ANT with the "-debug" flag can show where it is being found.
>
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 01:32, Bhavana <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I had a similar issue for some time. The target would work only on my
>> machine.
>>
>> I had to fix and try out some of the following to get my target to work:
>>
>> Adding the custom checkstyle jar to java's extensions java\lib\ext
>> Using ant 1.7
>> Making sure there isn't some other jar for checkstyle library being used
>> from some other location
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Bhavana
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Thomas Suckow <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I started using checkstyle with ant about a week ago. It went smooth.
>>> Trying to add custom checks is kicking my butt.
>>>
>>> I have a check TabOnlyForIndent extends Check
>>> in package org.hopto.defcon1.checks;
>>> I packaged as a jar from eclipse, it has an empty manifest (besides
>>> version).
>>>
>>> in ant i load checkstyle and put my jar in the classpath:
>>> <taskdef resource="checkstyletask.properties">
>>>        <classpath>
>>>                <pathelement
>>> location="lib/checkstyle-5.0-beta01/checkstyle-all-5.0-beta01.jar"/>
>>>                <pathelement location="lib/Defcon1Checks.jar"/>
>>>        </classpath>
>>> </taskdef>
>>>
>>> I add my check to the config
>>>
>>>  <!-- <module name="TabCharacter"/> Viva La \t -->
>>>  <module name="org.hopto.defcon1.checks.TabOnlyForIndent"/>
>>>  <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/>
>>>
>>> Have my checkstyle target in ant
>>>
>>> <target name="checkstyle" depends="compile"
>>>  description="Checks that we are using consistant well formed style.">
>>>        <checkstyle config="config_checkstyle.xml"
>>> failOnViolation="false">
>>>                <fileset dir="src" includes="**/*.java"/>
>>>                <formatter type="xml" toFile="checkstyle-result.xml"/>
>>>        </checkstyle>
>>> </target>
>>>
>>> And kaboom:
>>> Unable to create a Checker: cannot initialize module TreeWalker -
>>> Unable to instantiate org.hopto.defcon1.checks.TabOnlyForIndent
>>>
>>> I've tried compiling my check under java 6 and specifying target 1.4
>>> Tryed various ways of including in classpath
>>>
>>> Ideas, Thoughts, Recommendations?
>>>
>>> Thomas Suckow
>>>
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