Generating PEP8 xml report for Jenkins/Violations use

Question

I've setup Cobertura successfully to run through Jenkins and generate coverage reports, now I'm stuck on configuring Violations to report results for pep8 tests.

Right now I have it so that I run PEP8 with a batch command and it generate a .txt file that stores all the violations which ends up in the workspace.

Do I have to define batch commands to create an xml file for these violations to send to the Report Violations Post-build action? If so, how would I define that command?

Answer 1

As Vajk points out, you do not need an XML file. You can simply pipe the output of the pep8 utility to a file and use that as the violations file in Jenkins.

For example in your Jenkins build configuration under:

Build -> Execute Shell -> Command

you can write:

pep8 path/to/code > pep8_report.txt

And then under:

Post-build Actions -> Report Violations -> pep8 / XML filename pattern

add:

pep8_report.txt

Note that even though the UI asks for an XML file and the file is not an XML file, this worked fine for me on Jenkins version 1.499.