Re: problems calling checkstyle from ANT

Also, last I checked the sun-checks weren't up2date with latest checkstyle.
Thomas Suckow



On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Oliver Burn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Try:
>
>     <taskdef resource="checkstyletask.properties"
>              classpath="${CHECKSTYLE_HOME}/checkstyle-all-5.0.jar"
>              />
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:17, Jackson Ha <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm currently using checkstyle 5.0 and ANT 1.7.0.  I'm having trouble with
>> defining the checkstyle task in ANT.  It seems like it can't find the jar on
>> the classpath?   I even tried puting the checkstyle-all-5.0.jar into the
>> ANT_HOME/lib, but that didnt' help either.
>>
>> Does anyone have any recommendations?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> J
>>
>> I end up with this error
>>
>> C:\dev\hudson\jobs\HelloWorld\workspace\HelloWorld>ant -f
>> build-checkstyle.xml
>> Buildfile: build-checkstyle.xml
>> checkstyle:
>> BUILD FAILED
>>
>> C:\dev\hudson\jobs\HelloWorld\workspace\HelloWorld\build-checkstyle.xml:25:
>> Prob
>> lem: failed to create task or type checkstyle
>> Cause: The name is undefined.
>> Action: Check the spelling.
>> Action: Check that any custom tasks/types have been declared.
>> Action: Check that any <presetdef>/<macrodef> declarations have taken
>> place.
>>
>> This is my build file:
>>
>> <project basedir="." default="checkstyle" name="HelloWorld">
>>     <property name="CHECKSTYLE_HOME" value="C:\dev\checkstyle-5.0"/>
>>     <path id="HelloWorld.classpath">
>>         <pathelement location="bin"/>
>>         <pathelement location="lib/commons-lang-2.4.jar"/>
>>     </path>
>> <target name="checkstyle">
>>     <taskdef name="checkstyle="
>> classname="com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.CheckStyleTask">
>>   <classpath>
>>    <fileset dir="${CHECKSTYLE_HOME}">
>>     <include name="**/*.jar" />
>>    </fileset>
>>   </classpath>
>>     </taskdef>
>>
>>     <checkstyle config="${CHECKSTYLE_HOME}\sun_checks.xml" >
>>         <formatter type="xml" toFile="reports/checkstyle/report.xml"/>
>>         <fileset dir="src">
>>             <include name="**/*.java"/>
>>         </fileset>
>>     </checkstyle>
>> </target>
>> </project>
>>
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