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[[checkstyle_plugin]]
= The Checkstyle Plugin

The Checkstyle plugin performs quality checks on your project's Java source files using https://checkstyle.org/index.html[Checkstyle] and generates reports from these checks.


[[sec:checkstyle_usage]]
== Usage

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

.Using the Checkstyle plugin
====
include::sample[dir="snippets/codeQuality/codeQuality/kotlin",files="build.gradle.kts[tags=use-checkstyle-plugin]"]
include::sample[dir="snippets/codeQuality/codeQuality/groovy",files="build.gradle[tags=use-checkstyle-plugin]"]
====

The plugin adds a number of tasks to the project that perform the quality checks. You can execute the checks by running `gradle check`.

Note that Checkstyle will run with the same Java version used to run Gradle.

[[sec:checkstyle_tasks]]
== Tasks

The Checkstyle plugin adds the following tasks to the project:

`checkstyleMain` — link:{groovyDslPath}/org.gradle.api.plugins.quality.Checkstyle.html[Checkstyle]::
_Depends on_: `classes`
+
Runs Checkstyle against the production Java source files.

`checkstyleTest` — link:{groovyDslPath}/org.gradle.api.plugins.quality.Checkstyle.html[Checkstyle]::
_Depends on_: `testClasses`
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Runs Checkstyle against the test Java source files.

`checkstyle__SourceSet__` — link:{groovyDslPath}/org.gradle.api.plugins.quality.Checkstyle.html[Checkstyle]::
_Depends on_: `__sourceSet__Classes`
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Runs Checkstyle against the given source set's Java source files.

=== Dependencies added to other tasks

The Checkstyle plugin adds the following dependencies to tasks defined by the Java plugin.

`check`::
_Depends on_: All Checkstyle tasks, including `checkstyleMain` and `checkstyleTest`.


[[sec:checkstyle_project_layout]]
== Project layout

By default, the Checkstyle plugin expects configuration files to be placed in the root project, but this can be changed.

----
<root>
└── config
    └── checkstyle           // <1>
        └── checkstyle.xml   // <2>
        └── suppressions.xml
----
<1> Checkstyle configuration files go here
<2> Primary Checkstyle configuration file


[[sec:checkstyle_dependency_management]]
== Dependency management

The Checkstyle plugin adds the following dependency configurations:

.Checkstyle plugin - dependency configurations
[cols="a,a", options="header"]
|===
| Name
| Meaning

| `checkstyle`
| The Checkstyle libraries to use
|===


[[sec:checkstyle_configuration]]
== Configuration

See the link:{groovyDslPath}/org.gradle.api.plugins.quality.CheckstyleExtension.html[CheckstyleExtension] class in the API documentation.


[[sec:checkstyle_built_in_variables]]
=== Built-in variables

The Checkstyle plugin defines a `config_loc` property that can be used in Checkstyle configuration files to define paths to other configuration files like `suppressions.xml`.

.Using the config_loc property
====
include::sample[dir="snippets/codeQuality/codeQuality/groovy/config/checkstyle",files="checkstyle.xml[tags=use-config-loc]"]
====


[[sec:checkstyle_customize_xsl]]
== Customizing the HTML report

The HTML report generated by the link:{groovyDslPath}/org.gradle.api.plugins.quality.Checkstyle.html[Checkstyle] task can be customized using a XSLT stylesheet, for example to highlight specific errors or change its appearance:

.Customizing the HTML report
====
include::sample[dir="snippets/codeQuality/codeQuality/kotlin",files="build.gradle.kts[tags=customize-checkstyle-report]"]
include::sample[dir="snippets/codeQuality/codeQuality/groovy",files="build.gradle[tags=customize-checkstyle-report]"]
====

https://github.com/checkstyle/contribution/tree/master/xsl[View a sample Checkstyle stylesheet.]

[[sec:checkstyle_customize_memory]]
== Changing the amount of memory given to Checkstyle

Checkstyle analysis is performed in a separate process. By default, the Checkstyle process is given a max heap of 512MB. When analyzing many source files, you may need to provide additional memory to this process.
You can change the amount of memory for Checkstyle by configuring the link:{groovyDslPath}/org.gradle.api.plugins.quality.Checkstyle.html#org.gradle.api.plugins.quality.Checkstyle:maxHeapSize[Checkstyle.maxHeapSize].

.Customizing the amount of memory given to Checkstyle
====
include::sample[dir="snippets/codeQuality/codeQuality/kotlin",files="build.gradle.kts[tags=customize-checkstyle-memory]"]
include::sample[dir="snippets/codeQuality/codeQuality/groovy",files="build.gradle[tags=customize-checkstyle-memory]"]
====

