How to suppress Java warnings for specific directories or files such as generated code

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Chris Conway picture Chris Conway · Jul 14, 2009 · Viewed 33.5k times · Source

I'm using a parser generator that creates somewhat ugly code. As a result my Eclipse project has several dozen warnings emanating from generated source files. I know I can use the @SuppressWarning annotation to suppress particular warnings in particular elements, but any annotations I add by hand will be lost when the parser generator runs again. Is there a way to configure Eclipse to suppress warnings for a particular file or directory?

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Henrik Heimbuerger picture Henrik Heimbuerger · Mar 23, 2012

Starting with version 3.8 M6, Eclipse (to be exact: the JDT) has built-in functionality for this. It is configurable through a project's build path: Project properties > Java Build Path > Compiler > Source

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Announced here: Eclipse 3.8 and 4.2 M6 - New and Noteworthy, called Selectively ignore errors/warnings from source folders. That's also where the screenshot is from. This is the new feature developed on the previously linked Bug 220928.

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