# The PMD Plugin

version 7.3

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

## Usage

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

Example 1. Using the PMD plugin
build.gradle

    plugins {
        id 'pmd'
    }

build.gradle.kts

    plugins {
        pmd
    }

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 PMD will run with the same Java version used to run Gradle.

## Tasks

The PMD plugin adds the following tasks to the project:

`pmdMain` — Pmd

  Runs PMD against the production Java source files.

`pmdTest` — Pmd

  Runs PMD against the test Java source files.

`pmdSourceSet` — Pmd

  Runs PMD against the given source set’s Java source files.

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

Table 1. PMD plugin - additional task dependencies
Task name | Depends on
--- | ---
`check` | All PMD tasks, including `pmdMain` and `pmdTest`.

## Dependency management

The PMD plugin adds the following dependency configurations:

Table 2. PMD plugin - dependency configurations
Name | Meaning
--- | ---
`pmd` | The PMD libraries to use
`pmdAux` | The additional libraries that are available for type resolution during analysis. This might be useful if PMD complains about missing classes.

## Configuration

build.gradle

    pmd {
        consoleOutput = true
        toolVersion = "6.21.0"
        rulesMinimumPriority = 5
        ruleSets = ["category/java/errorprone.xml", "category/java/bestpractices.xml"]
    }

build.gradle.kts

    pmd {
        isConsoleOutput = true
        toolVersion = "6.21.0"
        rulesMinimumPriority.set(5)
        ruleSets = listOf("category/java/errorprone.xml", "category/java/bestpractices.xml")
    }

See the PmdExtension class in the API documentation.