Make it easier for someone to recognise which findbugs rule they must suppress about fb-contrib

[mebigfatguy]

In the findbugs swing gui at least, it shows the BugType as:

Bug kind and pattern: ISB - ISB_INEFFICIENT_STRING_BUFFERING

So adding it myself, would stutter there. Your suggestion is good, but perhaps this should be done by Findbugs itself in the other report types. Where are you using findbugs, in Eclipse? or the command line reporter? or ... ?

[jsotuyod]

The type is reported as part de XML / HTML report generated by findbugs, for instance:

<BugInstance type="SMII_STATIC_METHOD_INSTANCE_INVOCATION" priority="2" rank="17" abbrev="SMII" category="STYLE" instanceHash="dfc815a215952082da2307aac913c196" instanceOccurrenceNum="0" instanceOccurrenceMax="0">
  <ShortMessage>Method calls static method on instance reference</ShortMessage>
  ...

The messages (short and long) are just human-readable and reported separately, and mostly intended at understanding the issue at hand (causes, consequences, plausible fixes).

This same "issue" applies to findbugs itself (you can see an example message from Findbugs core here), since that's Findbugs report format. It seems most likely your real issue is with whatever tool you are using to deal with findbugs (be it an eclipse plugin / maven plugin / whatever) not showing relevant data from the XML.

As Dave suggests, any change would probably better be part of either the tool you are using to run findbugs; or at least Findbugs itself.

[athkalia]

You are right, sorry. It's the findbugs maven plugin. I'll annoy them instead.

Thanks for the prompt reply.