The CodeNarc Plugin

Table of Contents

Usage
Tasks
Project layout
Dependency management
Configuration

The CodeNarc plugin performs quality checks on your project’s Groovy source files using CodeNarc and generates reports from these checks.

Usage

To use the CodeNarc plugin, include the following in your build script:

Example: Using the CodeNarc plugin

build.gradle

apply plugin: 'codenarc'

The plugin adds a number of tasks to the project that perform the quality checks when used with the Groovy Plugin. You can execute the checks by running gradle check.

Tasks

The CodeNarc plugin adds the following tasks to the project:

CodeNarc plugin - tasks

Task name	Depends on	Type	Description
`codenarcMain`	-	`CodeNarc`	Runs CodeNarc against the production Groovy source files.
`codenarcTest`	-	`CodeNarc`	Runs CodeNarc against the test Groovy source files.
`codenarcSourceSet`	-	`CodeNarc`	Runs CodeNarc against the given source set’s Groovy source files.

The CodeNarc plugin adds the following dependencies to tasks defined by the Groovy plugin.

CodeNarc plugin - additional task dependencies

Task name	Depends on
`check`	All CodeNarc tasks, including `codenarcMain` and `codenarcTest`.

Project layout

The CodeNarc plugin expects the following project layout:

CodeNarc plugin - project layout

File	Meaning
`config/codenarc/codenarc.xml`	CodeNarc configuration file

Dependency management

The CodeNarc plugin adds the following dependency configurations:

CodeNarc plugin - dependency configurations

Name	Meaning
`codenarc`	The CodeNarc libraries to use

Configuration

See the CodeNarcExtension class in the API documentation.