jamesmgreene / grunt-flexpmd

A Grunt task plugin for running FlexPMD to lint/analyze apps built on Adobe Flex/ActionScript/MXML/Flash/AIR/etc. Think of it as "ASLint"/"FlexLint".

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grunt-flexpmd's Issues

Fatal error: ENOENT

Hi,
I'm getting this error "Fatal error: Unable to read "pmd.xml" file (Error code: ENOENT)." because I'm using grunt v0.4.5 and in files.js method signature is file.copy = function(srcpath, destpath, options) but in flexpmd.js you are passing grunt.file.copy(dest, outputFile);.
In other words dest and outputFile have to be swapped like this grunt.file.copy(outputFile,dest).

Reporting is intermittently flaky

Sometimes when running FlexPMD over multiple files, I don't receive any violations. However, if a single violation is added, I receive other unrelated violations that existed before but didn't show up.

I suspect that perhaps they are "warnings" vs. "errors"/"violations" or something like that, so the code that does handles consuming the report may need to be updated to consider more conditions in the XML.

If that's not the case, then perhaps FlexPMD is just unreliable and needs to be run on a single file instead of against a whole directory, i.e. so make a temporary dir for each file and run flexpmd against each one individually internally.

putting together a custom flexpmd ruleset.xml

the current documentation for flexpmd in general is abysmal. Adobe has completely washed their hands of it and has put everything on sourceforge. Just in case someone is coming after me on a similar effort and have found the same set of 4 nearly unproductive links, then perhaps this might help.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ruleset name="custom ruleset"
         xmlns="http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset/1.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset/1.0.0 http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset_xml_schema.xsd"
         xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset_xml_schema.xsd">
<description>custom ruleset for flexpmd</description>

<!-- provide exclusions -->
<exclude-pattern>.*/com/whatever/.*</exclude-pattern>

<!-- ruleset definitions ripped from http://www.java2s.com/Code/Jar/f/Downloadflexpmdrulesetjar.htm -->
<rule ref="com/adobe/ac/pmd/rulesets/component.xml" />
<rule ref="com/adobe/ac/pmd/rulesets/architecture.xml" />
<rule ref="com/adobe/ac/pmd/rulesets/basic_mxml.xml" />
<rule ref="com/adobe/ac/pmd/rulesets/binding.xml" />
<rule ref="com/adobe/ac/pmd/rulesets/cairngorm.xml" />
<rule ref="com/adobe/ac/pmd/rulesets/component.xml" />
<rule ref="com/adobe/ac/pmd/rulesets/css.xml" />
<rule ref="com/adobe/ac/pmd/rulesets/empty.xml" />
<rule ref="com/adobe/ac/pmd/rulesets/event.xml" />
<rule ref="com/adobe/ac/pmd/rulesets/maintanability.xml" />
<rule ref="com/adobe/ac/pmd/rulesets/naming.xml" />
<rule ref="com/adobe/ac/pmd/rulesets/performance.xml" />
<rule ref="com/adobe/ac/pmd/rulesets/sizing.xml" />
<rule ref="com/adobe/ac/pmd/rulesets/style.xml" />
<rule ref="com/adobe/ac/pmd/rulesets/switches.xml" />
<rule ref="com/adobe/ac/pmd/rulesets/unittest.xml" />
<rule ref="com/adobe/ac/pmd/rulesets/unused.xml" />

</ruleset>