FindBugs Eclipse: specyfying exclude filter files relatively to project

Question

We have Findbugs exclude filters defined in a findbugs-excludes.xml file in the root of our project.

Is it possible to use this file in FindBugs Eclipse without using absolute path to this file?

The problem that we have is that we have FindBugs configured in project specific settings in Eclipse and we want be able to propagate changes in FindBugs configuration by just svn commiting .settings directory.

But if it's configured giving absolute path we will need to ask each project member to update his FindBugs settings manually, giving a correct path in his file system.

Answer 1

Yes, using a relative path seems to work.

I have a global findbugs filter file in one project that every project uses. In .settings/edu.umd.cs.findbugs.core.prefs of each project, I have:

excludefilter0=../other.project/findbugs-global-excludes.xml|true

If this works it should work for a relative path to the same project.

I'm using version 2.0.1.20120712 of the findbugs plugin, for what it's worth.