Finetuning FindBugs ant task in Eclipse

Question

Within eclipse I am able to define detector ids and bug categories to be reported from the preference page.

I can't find anything like that for the FindBugs ant task in the FindBugs docs or using autocomplete inside the Eclipse ant editor.

The things I can adjust are the effort and the report level.

Is adjusting the detectors and categories an undocumented or a missing feature or have I missed something? And how is it solved in the FindBugs Eclipse plugin?

Answer 1

I had some issues with findbugs and ant as well. Here is what I've done finally:

<taskdef name="findbugs" 
            classpathref="build_libs" 
            classname="edu.umd.cs.findbugs.anttask.FindBugsTask" />
    <!-- 
     Executes findbugs for a unpacked plugin (folder)                    
     Params:
       plugin: the plugin / module to fetch
       plugin_dir: the folder to checkout the plugin to
    -->
    <target name="run.findbugs">
        <echo level="info">Running FindBugs:  ${plugin}</echo>
        <findbugs home="${FINDBUGS.HOME}" 
            output="xml:withMessages" 
            outputFile="${report.dir}/findbugs_report_${plugin}.xml" 
            timeout="1200000" 
            includefilter="report/YOUR_findbugs_filter.xml"
            excludefilter="report/YOUR_findbugs_exclude_filter.xml" 
            jvmargs="-server -Xss1m -Xmx512m">

            <sourcepath location="${plugin_dir}/${plugin}/**/*.java" />
            <class location="${install}/plugins/${plugin}_*.jar" />
        </findbugs>
    </target>

    <!-- 
     Executes findbugs for a single eclipse plugin                 
     Params:
       plugin: the plugin / module to fetch
       plugin_dir: the folder to checkout the plugin to
    -->
    <target name="run.findbugs.unpacked">
        <echo level="info">Running FindBugs:  ${plugin} (unpacked)</echo>
        <path id="rfu.pfp">
            <fileset dir="${install}/plugins/">
                <include name="${path_to_jar}" />
            </fileset>
        </path>
        <property name="plugin_fullpath" refid="rfu.pfp" />
        <findbugs home="${FINDBUGS.HOME}" 
            output="xml:withMessages" 
            outputFile="${report.dir}/findbugs_report_${plugin}.xml" 
            timeout="1200000" 
            includefilter="report/YOUR_findbugs_filter.xml" 
            excludefilter="report/YOUR_findbugs_exclude_filter.xml" 
            jvmargs="-server -Xss1m -Xmx512m">

            <class location="${plugin_fullpath}" />
        </findbugs>
    </target>

Call the task:

Unpacked plugin:

<antcall target="run.findbugs.unpacked">
    <param name="plugin" value="com.myplugin.core" />
    <param name="path_to_jar" value="com.myplugin.core_*/*.jar" />
</antcall>

plugin:

<antcall target="run.findbugs">
    <param name="plugin" value="com.myplugin.core" />
</antcall>

Hope that helps...