README.md

Watchtower Module: PMD

This module integrates with the PMD static code analyzer. PMD XPath rules can be designed and imported into Watchtower to scan Java, Ecmascript, Scala, and XML files.

Watchtower has limited support for PMD Java rules. If you would like to add a Java rule, add the Java code as a file to the PMD Module's resources folder, then deploy Watchtower and create a rule that references the Java file.

License

MIT License

Table of Contents

• Module Name
• Database Schema History Table
• Database Migrations Location
• Additional Rule Fields

Module Name

PMD

Database Schema History Table

pmd_schema_history

Database Migrations Location

db/pmd

Additional Rule Fields

Field	Description	Example
parserLanguage	Language the rule is associated with	"java"
ruleClass	Java class the rule is associated with	For XPath rules, "net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.rule.XPathRule"; for Java rules, name of the Java class containing rule code.
description	Longer description of the issue this rule identifies	"This is a bad practice because...."
properties	Any PMD properties for the rule	name="xpath" and value="//PrimaryPrefix[Name[starts-with(@Image,"System.out")]]" (More info here.)