What is the correct syntax to suppress specific checkstyle rules on certain files?

Question

I am using Maven 3 and Checkstyle 2.9.1 in my java project and I have a common checkstyle configuration that we're using in several other projects as well. To avoid copying and editing that configuration file into my own project I use a suppressions file to disable all checks in some packages (generated code).

Now I want to suppress specific rules in all files.

This is my suppressions file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE suppressions PUBLIC "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Suppressions 1.1//EN" "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/suppressions_1_1.dtd">
<suppressions>
    <suppress files="my[\\/]generated[\\/]code[\\/]package" checks="."/>
    <suppress files=".*\\.java$" checks="IndentationCheck"/>
    <suppress files=".*\\.java$" checks="LineLengthCheck"/>
    <suppress files=".*\\.java$" checks="ExplicitInitializationCheck"/>
    <suppress files=".*\\.java$" checks="MemberNameCheck"/>
</suppressions>

This is my POM:

...
<build>
    ...
    <plugins>
    ...
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.9.1</version>
            <configuration>
                <configLocation>${checkstyle.ruleset}</configLocation>
                <suppressionsLocation>${checkstyle.suppressions}</suppressionsLocation>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

I'm then calling

mvn checkstyle:checkstyle

to generate the reports, but the suppressed warnings are still in there.

What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

Ok, I finally managed to build a working suppressions file for my checkstyle configuration.

My original problem was with the regex, so instead of files=".*\\.java$" I'm now using files="." to suppress special checks on all files. I also suppress all checks on certain files.

Here are some examples from my suppressions file:

<?xml version="1.0"?> suppressions PUBLIC "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Suppressions 1.1//EN" "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/suppressions_1_1.dtd">
<suppressions>
    <!-- suppress certain checks on all files in a package -->
    <suppress files="my[\\/]super[\\/]package[\\/]name" checks="ModifierOrderCheck|NeedBracesCheck|MagicNumberCheck"/>
    <!-- suppress all checks on all files in a package -->
    <suppress files="another[\\/]super[\\/]package[\\/]of[\\/]mine" checks=".*"/>
    <!-- suppress certain checks on all files -->
    <suppress files="." checks="IndentationCheck"/>
    <suppress files="." checks="LineLengthCheck"/>
    <suppress files="." checks="ExplicitInitializationCheck"/>
    <suppress files="." checks="MemberNameCheck"/>
    <suppress files="." checks="FinalClassCheck"/>
</suppressions>

If you need help with the Maven part of the configuration, see the answer of @Mawia.