Findbugs task ignores "excludes" property set via "exclude" method

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Hi there,

in the following code, I’m setting an exclude pattern for all Findbugs tasks, but it doesn’t seem to work:

tasks.withType(FindBugs) {
  exclude '**/org/jsense/serialize/protobuf/gen/*'
}

The relevant classes are still included.

I believe this is a bug. Note that using the exact same syntax for both the Checkstyle and PMD plugin works, so I don’t think it’s an issue with my project. I’ve got it to work using the “excludeFilter” property in the FindBugsExtension. Perhaps see the changes in this commit on Github for how I got it working: https://github.com/markuswustenberg/jsense/commit/45fa6164943d85f6390cb8ad258c2b35cf09b125

Thanks!

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FindBugs primarily operates on class files, so you’ll have to filter those as well (see my answer to your Stack Overflow post).

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Yes, thanks very much. As noted on SO as well (for good measure, a link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22037499/using-excludes-config-in-findbugs-and-checkstyle-plugin-in-gradle), I think this is rather counter-intuitive. Perhaps it could be made explicit in the documentation that exclusion of classes is what’s important?

But thank you for the solution, works perfectly.

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