Suggestion: Add checkstyle formatter

[huerlisi]

The checkstyle format is supported by the jshint library and support in Jenkins Validation plugin. It would make tslint a bit more up to par with jshint.

[ashwinr]

is there a spec out there for the checkstyle format?

[ashwinr]

closing for now. please comment with a spec and we can support the checkstyle formatter natively

[huerlisi]

The homepage of the project is http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/

I haven't found an actual spec unfortunately, but it seems a simple form.

[huerlisi]

I did some more googling but was actually not able to find something explicit:-(

According to this google message https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/checkstyle-devel/ozgxErB4DdQ the output format for the XML is 'defined' here: https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/blob/master/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/XMLLogger.java

Here's a list of checks that are implemented in the checkstyle project for Java: http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/checks.html

This plugin adds checkstyle reporting to jshint: https://github.com/sublimeye/jshint-jenkins-checkstyle-reporter Here's the actual code generating the XML output: https://github.com/sublimeye/jshint-jenkins-checkstyle-reporter/blob/master/src/reporter.js

Hope this helps:-)

[sshev]

Hi! I've created PR for checkstyle formatter - pls check it
#1143

[jkillian]

Merged #1143 which fixes this. It will be available in the next release! Please note that #656 is still open which can cause issues with formatters depending on use