Reuse Sonar Checkstyle Violation Report for Custom Data Analysis

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1. Write a violation rules file;

2. Import it into Sonar as a Quality Profile named as "MyRules";

3. Add the following properties to ant script:

4. Run Ant script, and you can get the report at $PROJECT_HOME/.sonar/checkstyle-result.xml;

5. Use the following python script to extract data from the report:

   from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET tree = ET.parse('/path/to/checkstyle-result.xml') root = tree.getroot() cycleCnt = 0 nestCnt = 0 for error in root.iter('error'): msg = error.get('message') if msg.startswith('Cyclomatic'): cycleCnt += 1 if msg.startswith('Nested'): nestCnt += 1 print "Cyclomatic:",cycleCnt,"Nested:",nestCnt

See "Section 19.7: xml.etree.ElementTree" of documentation of Python 2.7.5 for details.

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