How would I add an annotation to exclude a method from a jacoco code coverage report?

Question

I have some code in Java that I want to exclude from code coverage. How would I do this? I want to be able to add an annotation. Is there a way to configure or extend jacoco (as used in gradle) to use this?

Example:

public class Something
{
    @ExcludeFromCodeCoverage
    public void someMethod() {}
}

Answer 1

The new feature has been added in the 0.8.2 release of JaCoCo which filters out the classes and methods annotated with @Generated. For details please see the documentation below:

Classes and methods annotated with annotation whose retention policy is runtime or class and whose simple name is Generated are filtered out during generation of report (GitHub #731).

JaCoCo 0.8.2 Release Notes