Writing custom rules in PMD using XPath is an exciting concept, but unfortunately there are not many good tutorials or reference guides available on the internet for this.
Recently, we wanted to write custom PMD rules to extract Spring JDBC calls from the code base. We utilized the PMD desiger that is provided OOTB in Eclipse to easily write the rules.
Just open Eclipse -> Preferences -> PMD -> Rule Designer.
In Rule Designer, copy-paste your source code and check the AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) that is formed. You can also copy the AST XML from the menu bar and paste it on to a text editor. Writing the XPath expression then becomes very very simple !!!
For e.g. for finding our the Spring JDBC query calls the XPath was:
//PrimaryPrefix[Name[starts-with(@Image,'jdbcTemplate.query')]]
Recently, we wanted to write custom PMD rules to extract Spring JDBC calls from the code base. We utilized the PMD desiger that is provided OOTB in Eclipse to easily write the rules.
Just open Eclipse -> Preferences -> PMD -> Rule Designer.
In Rule Designer, copy-paste your source code and check the AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) that is formed. You can also copy the AST XML from the menu bar and paste it on to a text editor. Writing the XPath expression then becomes very very simple !!!
For e.g. for finding our the Spring JDBC query calls the XPath was:
//PrimaryPrefix[Name[starts-with(@Image,'jdbcTemplate.query')]]
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