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Specifying the same report multiple times results in output issues #2047

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Vogel612 opened this issue May 12, 2022 · 0 comments
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Specifying the same report multiple times results in output issues #2047

Vogel612 opened this issue May 12, 2022 · 0 comments

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For reasons I don't want to get into here, I accidentally ran spotbugs with the following abridged command:

> java -jar /spotbugs/spotbugs.jar -noClassOk -xml:withMessages=spotbugs.xml [...] -xml:withMessages=spotbugs.xml -onlyAnalyze com.example.SomeClass dist/*.ear

Specifying the same XML report output multiple times seems to consistently generate a non-parseable XML file on the FileStats section, given sufficiently many files analyzed.
It seems that there is some output flushing issue between two instances of the XML reporter. I assume that also applies for other reporters.

I'd expect a reporter to always generate valid data of its output format. Spotbugs should at least warn me about reporters fighting over a file (or even throw an error), especially when generating multiple reports using different options (i.e. -xml:withMessages=spotbugs.xml -xml:minimal=spotbugs.xml

Vogel612 pushed a commit to Vogel612/spotbugs that referenced this issue Mar 9, 2024
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* Keep track of constructed BugReporters for TextUiCommandLine (#2047)

* Update javadoc according to PR suggestions

* Include readability suggestions

* Add test case for two different files using the same reporter

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Co-authored-by: Vogel612 <vogel612@gmx.net>
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