Re: checkstyle accpting other resources than just fileset

An interesting idea - I created
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2721826&group_id=29721&atid=397081

Please feel free to contribute a patch

2009/3/28 Dever, Jeffrey <[email protected]>

>  We just started using checkstyle in our Java 6 codebase with Ant.  It
> seems that Ant is going through a mild revolution in terms of Resource
> Collections in its data types, which is a good thing.
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> I bring this up because the checkstyle ant task only takes a single file or
> a fileset as input.  The problem is that I have my source files in several
> directories that are defined as a path, a sourcepath that is used with many
> tasks including javac, javadoc, etc.  Unfortunately Ant doesn’t make it easy
> to convert from a path to a fileset, and the ant-contrib task of
> pathtofileset doesn’t actually make a fileset of the files in the path, just
> of the paths themselves.  If I do this and pass the new fileset to the
> checkstyle ant task it doesn’t find any java files.
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> When I discussed this on the ant mailing list, it was suggested that
> checkstyle support paths as well as filesets for specifying source files.
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ant-user/200903.mbox/%[email protected]%3e
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> I had a quick look at doing this in the checkstyle task. With the
> assumption that a provided path specifies a number of root directories that
> are expanded into source trees, doesn’t seem too difficult.  To handle all
> resource types appears to be quite a bit more effort at first glance but
> still not complex.
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> I would consider this behaviour to be a valuable addition and am willing to
> take this on for 5.0 if someone else isn’t looking at it already.
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