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I am trying to use Google checkstyle configuration (https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/blob/master/src/main/resources/google_checks.xml) but I am constantly getting an error on gradle check:
Unable to create a Checker: cannot initialize module TreeWalker - Unable to instantiate EmptyCatchBlock
I used Gradle to build the project. Below is my gradle.build.
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'idea'
apply plugin: 'checkstyle'
sourceCompatibility = 1.8
version = '1.0'
checkstyle {
toolVersion = "6.3"
}
task "create-dirs" << {
sourceSets*.java.srcDirs*.each { it.mkdirs() }
sourceSets*.resources.srcDirs*.each { it.mkdirs() }
}
jar {
manifest {
attributes 'Implementation-Title': 'xyz',
'Implementation-Version': 0.01
}
}
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
compile (
['org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api:2.2'],
['org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core:2.2']
)
testCompile(
['junit:junit:4.11'],
['org.mockito:mockito-core:1.+']
)
}
test {
systemProperties 'property': 'value'
}
uploadArchives {
repositories {
flatDir {
dirs 'repos'
}
}
}
Also, when I try to add XML config file to Checkstyle plugin in IDEA I get similar error but with a stack trace:
org.infernus.idea.checkstyle.exception.CheckStylePluginException: <html><b>The CheckStyle rules file could not be loaded.</b><br>cannot initialize module TreeWalker - Unable to instantiate EmptyCatchBlock</html>
at org.infernus.idea.checkstyle.checker.CheckerFactory.blacklistAndShowMessage(CheckerFactory.java:234)
at org.infernus.idea.checkstyle.checker.CheckerFactory.createChecker(CheckerFactory.java:188)
at org.infernus.idea.checkstyle.checker.CheckerFactory.getOrCreateCachedChecker(CheckerFactory.java:98)
at org.infernus.idea.checkstyle.checker.CheckerFactory.getChecker(CheckerFactory.java:73)
at org.infernus.idea.checkstyle.checker.CheckerFactory.getChecker(CheckerFactory.java:41)
I cannot figure out what am I doing wrong. Any help would be appreciated. Gradle version: 2.2
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asked Feb 26 '15 18:02
You can add this configuration into your build.gradle file:
configurations {
checkstyleOverride
}
dependencies {
checkstyleOverride('com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle:6.11.2')
}
tasks.withType(Checkstyle) {
checkstyleClasspath = project.configurations.checkstyleOverride
}
Enjoy!
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The problem lies in the fact that com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.blocks.EmptyCatchBlockCheck was indeed added to checkstyle but for version 6.4-SNAPSHOT. As it can be seen in checkstyle repository (pom.xml history) version 6.4-SNAPSHOT was introduced on the 02.02.2015 and EmptyCatchBlockCheck class was created on 18.02.2015.
Gradle still uses version 6.3 as in the following log extract:
:checkstyleMain
Download https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/6.3/checkstyle-6.3.pom
So there's simply no class You'd like to use.
According to the docs checkstyle classpath can be specified with checkstyleClasspath property - you can try to set it up manually.
I've also prepared a demo with 6.4-SNAPSHOT version, it can be found here. Checkstyle jar was built with mvn clean package with source taken from this repo.
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