PMD/CPD: Ignore bits of code using comments

digiarnie picture digiarnie · Apr 24, 2011 · Viewed 20.4k times · Source

Is there a way to tell PMD to ignore checking parts of code for duplication?

For example, can I do something like this:

// CPD-Ignore-On
...
// CPD-Ignore-Off

Currently I have PMD set up like this using Maven, but don't see any arguments that would like me do what I want unless I am missing something.

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.5</version>
            <configuration>
                <minimumTokens>40</minimumTokens>
                <targetJdk>1.5</targetJdk>
                <ignoreIdentifiers>true</ignoreIdentifiers>
                <ignoreLiterals>true</ignoreLiterals>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>

Answer

Avik picture Avik · Sep 5, 2013

After digging around enough, I finally came across it.

By adding the annotations @SuppressWarnings("CPD-START") and @SuppressWarnings("CPD-END") all code within will be ignored by CPD - thus you can avoid false positives.

Source - http://pmd.sourceforge.net/pmd-5.0.5/cpd-usage.html.