Chapter 33. The PMD Plugin

The PMD plugin performs quality checks on your project's Java source files using PMD and generates reports from these checks.

33.1. Usage

To use the PMD plugin, include the following in your build script:

Example 33.1. Using the PMD plugin

build.gradle

apply plugin: 'pmd'

The plugin adds a number of tasks to the project that perform the quality checks. You can execute the checks by running gradle check.

The PMD plugin adds the following tasks to the project:

Table 33.1. PMD plugin - tasks

Task name	Depends on	Type	Description
`pmdMain`	-	`Pmd`	Runs PMD against the production Java source files.
`pmdTest`	-	`Pmd`	Runs PMD against the test Java source files.
`pmdSourceSet`	-	`Pmd`	Runs PMD against the given source set's Java source files.

The PMD plugin adds the following dependencies to tasks defined by the Java plugin.

Table 33.2. PMD plugin - additional task dependencies

Task name	Depends on
`check`	All PMD tasks, including `pmdMain` and `pmdTest`.

The PMD plugin adds the following dependency configurations:

Table 33.3. PMD plugin - dependency configurations

Name	Meaning
`pmd`	The PMD libraries to use

See the PmdExtension class in the API documentation.