JSR 305 Checkstyle Plugin

A checkstyle plugin which ensures nullness annotations on methods and constructors.

Requirements

Copy JSR305Checkstyle-x.x.x.jar into your eclipse dropins directory or add it to the classpath of your checkstyle task.

Add this to your checkstyle.xml:

<module name="Jsr305Annotations">
    <property name="packages" value="your.package.path.to.check,another.package.path.to.check"/>
</module>

and enjoy

It is a gradle project with included gradle wrapper.

To develop, import project to eclipse with default settings after typing:

./gradlew eclipse

To build the jar type:

./gradlew jar

This project uses an annotated git tag to get the version number. To release you have to:

create an annotated tag
```
git tag -a X.Y.Z
```
where X.Y.Z is the version number to be released
push tags to https://github.com/bjrke/JSR305CheckstylePlugin/tree/master (the master branch)
```
git push --tags origin master
```
You can also do this by draft a release through https://github.com/bjrke/JSR305CheckstylePlugin/releases
build the release by calling
```
./dist
```
This will run a docker build environment which ensures a common JDK is used (currently OpenJDK8).
upload the result to

https://github.com/bjrke/JSR305CheckstylePlugin/releases

This plugin was original licensed under GPL but is now relicensed under LGPL v2.1 or above. See LICENSE