Checkstyle Configuration Issue (Javadoc comments)

[H Grey]

I'm new to this forum, so if I commit a posting faux pas then please let me know and I will correct it. (Edit: I just realized that I posted this in the Testing forum rather than the intended Ant, Maven and Other Build Tools forum; my apologies.)

I recently set up a Checkstyle 'checks' xml configuration file, which I wanted to check class-level Javadoc comments for @author and @version tags. Furthermore, I only wanted Checkstyle to check Javadoc comments for non-private classes.

If I add the following xml, then it successfully finds Javadocs without @author and @version, but it checks private classes as well.

<module name="JavadocType"> <property name="authorFormat" value="\S"/> <property name="versionFormat" value="\S"/> </module>

I then modified the file to contain the following:

<module name="JavadocType"> <property name="excludeScope" value="private"/> <property name="authorFormat" value="\S"/> <property name="versionFormat" value="\S"/> </module>

Now Checkstyle checks all non-private classes, BUT it no longer checks for the @author and @version tags. Am I missing something here?

Thank you in advance for your help.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

H Grey wrote:I'm new to this forum, so if I commit a posting faux pas then please let me know and I will correct it. (Edit: I just realized that I posted this in the Testing forum rather than the intended Ant, Maven and Other Build Tools forum; my apologies.)

No problem. I've moved it for you.