Using custom detectors with FindBugs Maven plugin
- by Lóránt Pintér
I have a nice JAR of some custom FindBugs detectors I'd like to use with the FindBugs Maven plugin. There is a way to do this with the plugin via the <pluginList> configuration parameter, but that only accepts local files, URLs, or resources.
The only way I found for doing so is to somehow copy my JAR to a local file (maybe via the Dependency plugin) and then configure the FindBugs plugin something like this:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.1</version>
<configuration>
<pluginList>${project.build.directory}/my-detectors.jar</pluginList>
</configuration>
</plugin>
But this is not very flexible. Is there a way to use Maven's dependency management features together with FindBugs' plugins? I'd like to use something like this:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.lptr.findbugs</groupId>
<artifactId>my-detectors</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
...but this simply overrides the core FindBugs detectors.
