GitHub Action to run PMD Analyser based on the ruleset defined.

By default this will generate warning notifications for any rule violations specified in the ruleset on a pull request or a push, but the check won't fail. If you wish for some rule violations to cause error notifications and for the check to fail, you can specify the rule names in a comma separated input in the workflow file.

name: PMD Static Code Analysis
on:
  pull_request:
  push:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout Repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          # Incremental diffs require fetch depth to be at 0 to grab the target branch
          fetch-depth: '0'
      - name: Run PMD Analyser
        uses: synergy-au/pmd-analyser-action@v1
        with:
          pmd-version: '6.28.0'
          file-path: './src'
          rules-path: './pmd-ruleset.xml'
          error-rules: 'AvoidDirectAccessTriggerMap,AvoidDmlStatementsInLoops,AvoidHardcodingId'

Used to determine whether you just want to analyse the files changed or the whole repository. Note that if you wish to analyse the files changed, you will need to set the fetch-depth in the checkout action in the workflow to '0'.

• required: false
• default: 'false'

If you wish to define rules that log as an error, enter each rule name separated with a comma and no spaces. Note that if an error is identified the run will fail. e.g. ClassNamingConventions,GuardLogStatement

• required: false

Path to the sources to analyse. This can be a file name, a directory, or a jar or zip file containing the sources.

• required: true

The version of PMD you would like to run.

• required: true
• default: '6.27.0'

The ruleset file you want to use. PMD uses xml configuration files, called rulesets, which specify which rules to execute on your sources. You can also run a single rule by referencing it using its category and name (more details here). For example, you can check for unnecessary modifiers on Java sources with -R category/java/codestyle.xml/UnnecessaryModifier.

• required: true