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21<h1>Ant Tasks</h1>
22
23<p>
24  JaCoCo comes with Ant tasks to launch Java programs with execution recording
25  and for creating coverage reports from the recorded data. Execution data can
26  be collected and managed with the tasks
27  <a href="#coverage"><code>coverage</code></a>,
28  <a href="#agent"><code>agent</code></a>,
29  <a href="#dump"><code>dump</code></a> and
30  <a href="#merge"><code>merge</code></a>. Reports in different formats are
31  created with the <a href="#report"><code>report</code></a> task. For
32  <a href="offline.html">offline instrumentation</a> the task
33  <a href="#instrument"><code>instrument</code></a> can be used to prepare class
34  files.
35</p>
36
37<p class="hint">
38  If you want to have line number information included in the coverage reports
39  or you want source code highlighting the class files of the test target must
40  be compiled with debug information.
41</p>
42
43<h2>Example</h2>
44
45<p>
46  The JaCoCo distribution contains a simple example how code coverage can be
47  added to a Ant based build. The
48  <a href="examples/build/build.xml">build script</a> compiles Java sources,
49  runs an simple Java program and creates a coverage report. The complete
50  example is located in the <code>./doc/examples/build</code> folder of the
51  distribution.
52</p>
53
54
55<h2>Prerequisites</h2>
56
57<p>
58  The JaCoCo Ant tasks require
59</p>
60
61<ul>
62  <li>Ant 1.7.0 or higher and</li>
63  <li>Java 1.5 or higher (for both, the Ant runner and the test executor).</li>
64</ul>
65
66
67<p>All tasks are defined in <code>jacocoant.jar</code> (which is part of the
68  distribution) and can be included in your Ant scripts with the usual
69  <code>taskdef</code> declaration:
70</p>
71
72<pre class="source lang-xml linenums">
73&lt;project name="Example" xmlns:jacoco="antlib:org.jacoco.ant"&gt;
74
75    &lt;taskdef uri="antlib:org.jacoco.ant" resource="org/jacoco/ant/antlib.xml"&gt;
76        &lt;classpath path="<i>path_to_jacoco</i>/lib/jacocoant.jar"/&gt;
77    &lt;/taskdef&gt;
78
79    ...
80
81&lt;/project&gt;
82</pre>
83
84<p>
85  Alternatively you might also place the <code>jacocoant.jar</code> in your
86  Ant <code><i>ANT_HOME</i>/lib</code> folder. If you use the name space URI
87  <code>antlib:org.jacoco.ant</code> for JaCoCo tasks Ant will find them
88  automatically without the <code>taskdef</code> declaration above.
89</p>
90
91<p class="hint">
92  Declaring a XML namespace for JaCoCo tasks is optional but always recommended
93  if you mix tasks from different libraries. All subsequent examples use the
94  <code>jacoco</code> prefix declared above. If you don't declare a separate
95  namespace the <code>jacoco</code> prefix must be removed from the following
96  examples.
97</p>
98
99<h2><a name="coverage">Task <code>coverage</code></a></h2>
100
101<p>
102  The standard Ant tasks to launch Java programs are <code>java</code>, <code>junit</code> and
103  <code>testng</code>. To add code coverage recording to these tasks they can
104  simply be wrapped with the <code>coverage</code> task as shown in the
105  following examples:
106</p>
107
108<pre class="source lang-xml linenums">
109&lt;jacoco:coverage>
110    &lt;java classname="org.jacoco.examples.HelloJaCoCo" fork="true"&gt;
111        &lt;classpath&gt;
112            &lt;pathelement location="./bin"/&gt;
113        &lt;/classpath&gt;
114    &lt;/java&gt;
115&lt;/jacoco:coverage&gt;
116
117
118&lt;jacoco:coverage>
119    &lt;junit fork="true" forkmode="once"&gt;
120        &lt;test name="org.jacoco.examples.HelloJaCoCoTest"/&gt;
121        &lt;classpath&gt;
122            &lt;pathelement location="./bin"/&gt;
123        &lt;/classpath&gt;
124    &lt;/junit&gt;
125&lt;/jacoco:coverage&gt;
126</pre>
127
128<p>
129  Resulting coverage information is collected during execution and written
130  to a file when the process terminates. Note the <code>fork</code> attribute
131  above in the wrapped <code>java</code> task.
132</p>
133
134<p class="hint">
135  The nested task always has to declare <code>fork="true"</code>, otherwise the
136  <code>coverage</code> task can't record coverage information and will fail.
137  In addition the <code>junit</code> task should declare
138  <code>forkmode="once"</code> to avoid starting a new JVM for every single test
139  case and decreasing execution performance dramatically (unless this is
140  required by the nature of the test cases). Note that
141  <code>forkmode="perTest"</code> or <code>forkmode="perBatch"</code> should not
142  be combined with <code>append="false"</code> as the execution data file is
143  overwritten with the execution of every test.
144</p>
145
146<p>
147  The coverage task must wrap exactly one task. While it typically works without
148  any configuration, the behavior can be adjusted with some optional attributes:
149</p>
150
151<table class="coverage">
152  <thead>
153    <tr>
154      <td>Attribute</td>
155      <td>Description</td>
156      <td>Default</td>
157    </tr>
158  </thead>
159  <tbody>
160    <tr>
161      <td><code>enabled</code></td>
162      <td>If set to <code>true</code> coverage data will be collected for the contained task.</td>
163      <td><code>true</code></td>
164    </tr>
165    <tr>
166      <td><code>destfile</code></td>
167      <td>Path to the output file for execution data.</td>
168      <td><code>jacoco.exec</code></td>
169    </tr>
170    <tr>
171      <td><code>append</code></td>
172      <td>If set to <code>true</code> and the execution data file already
173          exists, coverage data is appended to the existing file. If set to
174          <code>false</code>, an existing execution data file will be replaced.
175      </td>
176      <td><code>true</code></td>
177    </tr>
178    <tr>
179      <td><code>includes</code></td>
180      <td>A list of class names that should be included in execution analysis.
181          The list entries are separated by a colon (<code>:</code>) and
182          may use wildcard characters (<code>*</code> and <code>?</code>).
183          Except for performance optimization or technical corner cases this
184          option is normally not required.
185      </td>
186      <td><code>*</code> (all classes)</td>
187    </tr>
188    <tr>
189      <td><code>excludes</code></td>
190      <td>A list of class names that should be excluded from execution analysis.
191          The list entries are separated by a colon (<code>:</code>) and
192          may use wildcard characters (<code>*</code> and <code>?</code>).
193          Except for performance optimization or technical corner cases this
194          option is normally not required. If you want to exclude classes from
195          the report please configure the <code>report</code> task accordingly.
196      </td>
197      <td><i>empty</i> (no excluded classes)</td>
198    </tr>
199    <tr>
200      <td><code>exclclassloader</code></td>
201      <td>A list of class loader names, that should be excluded from execution
202          analysis. The list entries are separated by a colon
203          (<code>:</code>) and may use wildcard characters (<code>*</code> and
204          <code>?</code>). This option might be required in case of special
205          frameworks that conflict with JaCoCo code instrumentation, in
206          particular class loaders that do not have access to the Java runtime
207          classes.
208      </td>
209      <td><code>sun.reflect.DelegatingClassLoader</code></td>
210    </tr>
211    <tr>
212      <td><code>inclbootstrapclasses</code></td>
213      <td>Specifies whether also classes from the bootstrap classloader should
214          be instrumented. Use this feature with caution, it needs heavy
215          includes/excludes tuning.
216      </td>
217      <td><code>false</code></td>
218    </tr>
219    <tr>
220      <td><code>inclnolocationclasses</code></td>
221      <td>Specifies whether also classes without a source location should be
222          instrumented. Normally such classes are generated at runtime e.g. by
223          mocking frameworks and are therefore excluded by default.
224      </td>
225      <td><code>false</code></td>
226    </tr>
227    <tr>
228      <td><code>sessionid</code></td>
229      <td>A session identifier that is written with the execution data. Without
230          this parameter a random identifier is created by the agent.
231      </td>
232      <td><i>auto-generated</i></td>
233    </tr>
234    <tr>
235      <td><code>dumponexit</code></td>
236      <td>If set to <code>true</code> coverage data will be written on VM
237          shutdown.
238      </td>
239      <td><code>true</code></td>
240    </tr>
241    <tr>
242      <td><code>output</code></td>
243      <td>Output method to use for writing coverage data. Valid options are:
244        <ul>
245          <li><code>file</code>: At VM termination execution data is written to
246              the file specified in the <code>destfile</code> attribute.</li>
247          <li><code>tcpserver</code>: The agent listens for incoming connections
248              on the TCP port specified by the <code>address</code> and
249              <code>port</code> attribute. Execution data is written to this
250              TCP connection.</li>
251          <li><code>tcpclient</code>: At startup the agent connects to the TCP
252              port specified by the <code>address</code> and <code>port</code>
253              attribute. Execution data is written to this TCP connection.</li>
254          <li><code>none</code>: Do not produce any output.</li>
255        </ul>
256      </td>
257      <td><code>file</code></td>
258    </tr>
259    <tr>
260      <td><code>address</code></td>
261      <td>IP address or hostname to bind to when the output method is
262          <code>tcpserver</code> or connect to when the output method is
263          <code>tcpclient</code>.  In <code>tcpserver</code> mode the value
264          "<code>*</code>" causes the agent to accept connections on any local
265          address.
266      </td>
267      <td><i>loopback interface</i></td>
268    </tr>
269    <tr>
270      <td><code>port</code></td>
271      <td>Port to bind to when the output method is <code>tcpserver</code> or
272          connect to when the output method is <code>tcpclient</code>. In
273          <code>tcpserver</code> mode the port must be available, which means
274          that if multiple JaCoCo agents should run on the same machine,
275          different ports have to be specified.
276      </td>
277      <td><code>6300</code></td>
278    </tr>
279    <tr>
280      <td><code>classdumpdir</code></td>
281      <td>Location relative to the working directory where all class files seen
282          by the agent are dumped to. This can be useful for debugging purposes
283          or in case of dynamically created classes for example when scripting
284          engines are used.
285      </td>
286      <td><i>no dumps</i></td>
287    </tr>
288    <tr>
289      <td><code>jmx</code></td>
290      <td>If set to <code>true</code> the agent exposes
291          <a href="./api/org/jacoco/agent/rt/IAgent.html">functionality</a> via
292          JMX under the name <code>org.jacoco:type=Runtime</code>.
293      </td>
294      <td><code>false</code></td>
295    </tr>
296  </tbody>
297</table>
298
299
300<h2><a name="agent">Task <code>agent</code></a></h2>
301
302<p>
303  If the <code>coverage</code> task is not suitable for your launch target, you
304  might alternatively use the <code>agent</code> task to create the
305  <a href="agent.html">Java agent</a> parameter. The following example defines a
306  Ant property with the name <code>agentvmparam</code> that can be directly used
307  as a Java VM parameter:
308</p>
309
310<pre class="source lang-xml linenums">
311&lt;jacoco:agent property="agentvmparam"/&gt;
312</pre>
313
314<p>
315  This task has the same attributes as the <code>coverage</code> task plus an
316  additional property to specify the target property name:
317</p>
318
319<table class="coverage">
320  <thead>
321    <tr>
322      <td>Attribute</td>
323      <td>Description</td>
324      <td>Default</td>
325    </tr>
326  </thead>
327  <tbody>
328    <tr>
329      <td><code>enabled</code></td>
330      <td>When this variable is set to <code>false</code> the value of <code>property</code> will be set to an empty string, effectively
331          disabling coverage instrumentation for any tasks that used the value.</td>
332      <td><code>true</code></td>
333    </tr>
334    <tr>
335      <td><code>property</code></td>
336      <td>Name of the Ant property to set.</td>
337      <td><i>none (required)</i></td>
338    </tr>
339    <tr>
340      <td colspan="3"><i>All attributes of the <code>coverage</code> task.</i></td>
341    </tr>
342  </tbody>
343</table>
344
345
346<h2><a name="dump">Task <code>dump</code></a></h2>
347
348<p>
349  This task allows to remotely collect execution data from another JVM without
350  stopping it. For example:
351</p>
352
353<pre class="source lang-xml linenums">
354&lt;jacoco:dump address="server.example.com" reset="true" destfile="remote.exec"/&gt;
355</pre>
356
357<p>
358  Remote dumps are usefull for long running Java processes like application
359  servers.
360</p>
361
362<p class="hint">
363  The target JVM needs to have a <a href="agent.html">JaCoCo agent</a>
364  configured with <code>output</code> mode <code>tcpserver</code>. See
365  <a href="#coverage"><code>coverage</code></a> and
366  <a href="#agent"><code>agent</code></a> tasks above.
367</p>
368
369<p>
370  The <code>dump</code> task has the following attributes:
371</p>
372
373<table class="coverage">
374  <thead>
375    <tr>
376      <td>Attribute</td>
377      <td>Description</td>
378      <td>Default</td>
379    </tr>
380  </thead>
381  <tbody>
382    <tr>
383      <td><code>address</code></td>
384      <td>Target IP address or DNS name.</td>
385      <td><code>localhost</code></td>
386    </tr>
387    <tr>
388      <td><code>port</code></td>
389      <td>Target TCP port.</td>
390      <td><code>6300</code></td>
391    </tr>
392    <tr>
393      <td><code>retryCount</code></td>
394      <td>Number of retries which the goal will attempt to establish a
395          connection. This can be used to wait until the target JVM is
396          successfully launched.</td>
397      <td><code>10</code></td>
398    </tr>
399    <tr>
400      <td><code>dump</code></td>
401      <td>Flag whether execution data should be dumped.</td>
402      <td><code>true</code></td>
403    </tr>
404    <tr>
405      <td><code>reset</code></td>
406      <td>Flag whether execution data should be reset in the target agent after
407          the dump.</td>
408      <td><code>false</code></td>
409    </tr>
410    <tr>
411      <td><code>destfile</code></td>
412      <td>File location to write the collected execution data to.</td>
413      <td><i>none (required if dump=true)</i></td>
414    </tr>
415    <tr>
416      <td><code>append</code></td>
417      <td>If set to <code>true</code> and the execution data file already
418          exists, coverage data is appended to the existing file. If set to
419          <code>false</code>, an existing execution data file will be replaced.
420      </td>
421      <td><code>true</code></td>
422    </tr>
423  </tbody>
424</table>
425
426
427<h2><a name="merge">Task <code>merge</code></a></h2>
428
429<p>
430  This task can be used to merge the execution data from multiple test runs
431  into a single data store.
432</p>
433
434<pre class="source lang-xml linenums">
435&lt;jacoco:merge destfile="merged.exec"&gt;
436    &lt;fileset dir="executionData" includes="*.exec"/&gt;
437&lt;/jacoco:merge&gt;
438</pre>
439
440<p>
441  The task definition can contain any number of resource collection types and
442  has the following mandatory attribute:
443</p>
444
445<table class="coverage">
446  <thead>
447    <tr>
448      <td>Attribute</td>
449      <td>Description</td>
450      <td>Default</td>
451    </tr>
452  </thead>
453  <tbody>
454    <tr>
455      <td><code>destfile</code></td>
456      <td>File location to write the merged execution data to.</td>
457      <td><i>none (required)</i></td>
458    </tr>
459  </tbody>
460</table>
461
462
463<h2><a name="report">Task <code>report</code></a></h2>
464
465<p>
466  Finally different reports can be created with the <code>report</code> task.
467  A report task declaration consists of different sections, two specify the
468  input data, additional ones specify the output formats:
469</p>
470
471<pre class="source lang-xml linenums">
472&lt;jacoco:report&gt;
473
474    &lt;executiondata&gt;
475        &lt;file file="jacoco.exec"/&gt;
476    &lt;/executiondata&gt;
477
478    &lt;structure name="Example Project"&gt;
479        &lt;classfiles&gt;
480            &lt;fileset dir="classes"/&gt;
481        &lt;/classfiles&gt;
482        &lt;sourcefiles encoding="UTF-8"&gt;
483            &lt;fileset dir="src"/&gt;
484        &lt;/sourcefiles&gt;
485    &lt;/structure&gt;
486
487    &lt;html destdir="report"/&gt;
488
489&lt;/jacoco:report&gt;
490</pre>
491
492<p>
493  As you can see from the example above the <code>report</code> task is based
494  on several nested elements:
495</p>
496
497<h3>Element <code>executiondata</code></h3>
498
499<p>
500  Within this element Ant resources and resource collections can be specified,
501  that represent JaCoCo execution data files. If more than one execution data
502  file is specified, execution data is combined. A particular piece of code is
503  considered executed when it is marked as such in any of the input files.
504</p>
505
506<h3>Element <code>structure</code></h3>
507
508<p>
509  This element defines the report structure. It might contain the following
510  nested elements:
511</p>
512
513<ul>
514  <li><code>classfiles</code>: Container element for Ant resources and resource
515    collections that can specify Java class files, archive files (jar, war, ear
516    etc. or Pack200) or folders containing class files. Archives and folders are
517    searched recursively for class files.</li>
518  <li><code>sourcefiles</code>: Optional container element for Ant resources and
519    resource collections that specify corresponding source files. If source
520    files are specified, some report formats include highlighted source code.
521    Source files can be specified as individual files or as source directories.</li>
522</ul>
523
524<p>
525  The <code>sourcefiles</code> element has these optional attributes:
526</p>
527
528<table class="coverage">
529  <thead>
530    <tr>
531      <td>Attribute</td>
532      <td>Description</td>
533      <td>Default</td>
534    </tr>
535  </thead>
536  <tbody>
537    <tr>
538      <td><code>encoding</code></td>
539      <td>Character encoding of the source files.</td>
540      <td>Platform default encoding</td>
541    </tr>
542    <tr>
543      <td><code>tabwidth</code></td>
544      <td>Number of whitespace characters that represent a tab character.</td>
545      <td>4 characters</td>
546    </tr>
547  </tbody>
548</table>
549
550<p class="hint">
551  <b>Important:</b> Source file resources must always be specified relative to
552  the respective source folder. If directory resources are given, they must
553  directly point to source folders. Otherwise source lookup will not succeed.
554</p>
555
556<p>
557  Note that the <code>classfiles</code> and <code>sourcefiles</code> elements
558  accept any
559  <a href="http://ant.apache.org/manual/Types/resources.html#collection">Ant
560  resource collection</a>. Therefore also filtering the class file set is
561  possible and allows to narrow the scope of the report, for example:
562</p>
563
564<pre class="source lang-xml linenums">
565&lt;classfiles&gt;
566    &lt;fileset dir="classes"&gt;
567        &lt;include name="org/jacoco/examples/important/**/*.class"/&gt;
568    &lt;/fileset&gt;
569&lt;/classfiles&gt;
570</pre>
571
572<p class="hint">
573  <b>Performance Warning:</b> Although it is technically possible and sometimes
574  convenient to use Ant's <code>zipfileset</code> to specify class or source
575  files, this resource type has poor performance characteristics and comes with
576  an huge memory overhead especially for large scale projects.
577</p>
578
579<p>
580  The structure can be refined with a hierarchy of <code>group</code> elements.
581  This way the coverage report can reflect different modules of a software
582  project. For each group element the corresponding class and source files can
583  be specified separately. For example:
584</p>
585
586<pre class="source lang-xml linenums">
587&lt;structure name="Example Project"&gt;
588    &lt;group name="Server"&gt;
589        &lt;classfiles&gt;
590            &lt;fileset dir="${workspace.dir}/org.jacoco.example.server/classes"/&gt;
591        &lt;/classfiles&gt;
592        &lt;sourcefiles&gt;
593            &lt;fileset dir="${workspace.dir}/org.jacoco.example.server/src"/&gt;
594        &lt;/sourcefiles&gt;
595    &lt;/group&gt;
596    &lt;group name="Client"&gt;
597        &lt;classfiles&gt;
598            &lt;fileset dir="${workspace.dir}/org.jacoco.example.client/classes"/&gt;
599        &lt;/classfiles&gt;
600        &lt;sourcefiles&gt;
601            &lt;fileset dir="${workspace.dir}/org.jacoco.example.client/src"/&gt;
602        &lt;/sourcefiles&gt;
603    &lt;/group&gt;
604
605    ...
606
607&lt;/structure&gt;
608</pre>
609
610<p>
611  Both <code>structure</code> and <code>group</code> elements have the following
612  mandatory attribute:
613</p>
614
615<table class="coverage">
616  <thead>
617    <tr>
618      <td>Attribute</td>
619      <td>Description</td>
620      <td>Default</td>
621    </tr>
622  </thead>
623  <tbody>
624    <tr>
625      <td><code>name</code></td>
626      <td>Name of the structure or group.</td>
627      <td><i>none (required)</i></td>
628    </tr>
629  </tbody>
630</table>
631
632<h3>Element <code>html</code></h3>
633
634<p>
635  Create a multi-page report in HTML format. The report can either be written as
636  multiple files into a directory or compressed into a single ZIP file.
637</p>
638
639<table class="coverage">
640  <thead>
641    <tr>
642      <td>Attribute</td>
643      <td>Description</td>
644      <td>Default</td>
645    </tr>
646  </thead>
647  <tbody>
648    <tr>
649      <td><code>destdir</code></td>
650      <td>Directory to create the report in. Either this property or
651        <code>destfile</code> has to be supplied.</td>
652      <td><i>none (required)</i></td>
653    </tr>
654    <tr>
655      <td><code>destfile</code></td>
656      <td>Zip file to create the report in.  Either this property or
657        <code>destdir</code> has to be supplied.</td>
658      <td><i>none (required)</i></td>
659    </tr>
660    <tr>
661      <td><code>footer</code></td>
662      <td>Footer text for each report page.</td>
663      <td><i>no footer</i></td>
664    </tr>
665    <tr>
666      <td><code>encoding</code></td>
667      <td>Character encoding of generated HTML pages.</td>
668      <td><code>UTF-8</code></td>
669    </tr>
670    <tr>
671      <td><code>locale</code></td>
672      <td>Locale specified as ISO code (en, fr, jp, ...) used for number
673      formatting. Locale country and variant can be separated with an underscore
674      (de_CH).</td>
675      <td><i>platform locale</i></td>
676    </tr>
677  </tbody>
678</table>
679
680<h3>Element <code>xml</code></h3>
681
682<p>
683  Create a single-file report in XML format.
684</p>
685
686<table class="coverage">
687  <thead>
688    <tr>
689      <td>Attribute</td>
690      <td>Description</td>
691      <td>Default</td>
692    </tr>
693  </thead>
694  <tbody>
695    <tr>
696      <td><code>destfile</code></td>
697      <td>Location to write the report file to.</td>
698      <td><i>none (required)</i></td>
699    </tr>
700    <tr>
701      <td><code>encoding</code></td>
702      <td>Encoding of the generated XML document.</td>
703      <td><code>UTF-8</code></td>
704    </tr>
705  </tbody>
706</table>
707
708<h3>Element <code>csv</code></h3>
709
710<p>
711  Create single-file report in CSV format.
712</p>
713
714<table class="coverage">
715  <thead>
716    <tr>
717      <td>Attribute</td>
718      <td>Description</td>
719      <td>Default</td>
720    </tr>
721  </thead>
722  <tbody>
723    <tr>
724      <td><code>destfile</code></td>
725      <td>Location to write the report file to.</td>
726      <td><i>none (required)</i></td>
727    </tr>
728    <tr>
729      <td><code>encoding</code></td>
730      <td>Encoding of the generated CSV document.</td>
731      <td><code>UTF-8</code></td>
732    </tr>
733  </tbody>
734</table>
735
736<h3>Element <code>check</code></h3>
737
738<p>
739  This report type does not actually create a report. It checks coverage
740  counters and reports violations of configured rules. Every rule is applied to
741  elements of a given type (class, package, bundle, etc.) and has a list of
742  limits which are checked for every element. The following example checks that
743  for every package the line coverage is at least 80% and no class is missed:
744</p>
745
746<pre class="source lang-xml linenums">
747&lt;check&gt;
748    &lt;rule element="PACKAGE"&gt;
749        &lt;limit counter="LINE" value="COVEREDRATIO" minimum="80%"/&gt;
750        &lt;limit counter="CLASS" value="MISSEDCOUNT" maximum="0"/&gt;
751    &lt;/rule&gt;
752&lt;/check&gt;
753</pre>
754
755<p>
756  The <code>check</code> element has the following attributes:
757</p>
758
759<table class="coverage">
760  <thead>
761    <tr>
762      <td>Attribute</td>
763      <td>Description</td>
764      <td>Default</td>
765    </tr>
766  </thead>
767  <tbody>
768    <tr>
769      <td><code>rules</code></td>
770      <td>List of rules to check.</td>
771      <td><i>none</i></td>
772    </tr>
773    <tr>
774      <td><code>failonviolation</code></td>
775      <td>Specifies whether build should fail in case of rule violations.</td>
776      <td><code>true</code></td>
777    </tr>
778    <tr>
779      <td><code>violationsproperty</code></td>
780      <td>The name of an Ant property which is filled with the violation
781          messages.</td>
782      <td><i>none</i></td>
783    </tr>
784  </tbody>
785</table>
786
787<p>
788  Within the <code>check</code> element any number of <code>rule</code> elements
789  can be nested:
790</p>
791
792<table class="coverage">
793  <thead>
794    <tr>
795      <td>Attribute</td>
796      <td>Description</td>
797      <td>Default</td>
798    </tr>
799  </thead>
800  <tbody>
801    <tr>
802      <td><code>element</code></td>
803      <td>The elements this rule applies to. Possible values are
804          <code>BUNDLE</code>, <code>PACKAGE</code>, <code>CLASS</code>,
805          <code>SOURCEFILE</code> and <code>METHOD</code>.</td>
806      <td><code>BUNDLE</code></td>
807    </tr>
808    <tr>
809      <td><code>includes</code></td>
810      <td>A list of element names that should be checked. The list entries are
811          separated by a colon (:) and may use wildcard characters (* and ?).</td>
812      <td><code>*</code></td>
813    </tr>
814    <tr>
815      <td><code>excludes</code></td>
816      <td>A list of element names that should not be checked. The list entries
817          are separated by a colon (:) and may use wildcard characters (* and ?).</td>
818      <td><i>empty (no excludes)</i></td>
819    </tr>
820    <tr>
821      <td><code>limits</code></td>
822      <td>List of limits to check.</td>
823      <td><i>none</i></td>
824    </tr>
825  </tbody>
826</table>
827
828<p>
829  Within the <code>rule</code> element any number of <code>limit</code> elements
830  can be nested:
831</p>
832
833<table class="coverage">
834  <thead>
835    <tr>
836      <td>Attribute</td>
837      <td>Description</td>
838      <td>Default</td>
839    </tr>
840  </thead>
841  <tbody>
842    <tr>
843      <td><code>counter</code></td>
844      <td>The <a href="counters.html">counter</a> which should be checked.
845          Possible options are <code>INSTRUCTION</code>, <code>LINE</code>,
846          <code>BRANCH</code>, <code>COMPLEXITY</code>, <code>METHOD</code> and
847          <code>CLASS</code>.</td>
848      <td><code>INSTRUCTION</code></td>
849    </tr>
850    <tr>
851      <td><code>value</code></td>
852      <td>The counter value that should be checked. Possible options are
853      <code>TOTALCOUNT</code>, <code>MISSEDCOUNT</code>,
854      <code>COVEREDCOUNT</code>, <code>MISSEDRATIO</code> and
855      <code>COVEREDRATIO</code>.</td>
856      <td><code>COVEREDRATIO</code></td>
857    </tr>
858    <tr>
859      <td><code>minimum</code></td>
860      <td>Expected minimum value. If the minimum refers to a ratio it must be
861          in the range from 0.0 to 1.0 where the number of decimal places will
862          also determine the precision in error messages. A limit ratio may
863          optionally be declared as a percentage where 0.80 and 80% represent
864          the same value.</td>
865      <td><i>none</i></td>
866    </tr>
867    <tr>
868      <td><code>maximum</code></td>
869      <td>Expected maximum value, see <code>minimum</code> for details.</td>
870      <td><i>none</i></td>
871    </tr>
872  </tbody>
873</table>
874
875<h2><a name="instrument">Task <code>instrument</code></a></h2>
876
877<p class="hint">
878  <b>Warning:</b> The preferred way for code coverage analysis with JaCoCo is
879  on-the-fly instrumentation. Offline instrumentation has several drawbacks and
880  should only be used if a specific scenario explicitly requires this mode.
881  Please consult <a href="offline.html">documentation</a> about offline
882  instrumentation before using this mode.
883</p>
884
885<p>
886  This task is used for <a href="offline.html">offline instrumentation</a> of
887  class files. The task takes a set of files and writes instrumented
888  versions to a specified location. The task takes any file type as input. Java
889  class files are instrumented. Archives (jar, war, ear etc. or Pack200) are
890  searched recursively for class files which then get instrumented. All other
891  files are copied without modification.
892</p>
893
894<pre class="source lang-xml linenums">
895&lt;jacoco:instrument destdir="target/classes-instr"&gt;
896    &lt;fileset dir="target/classes" includes="**/*.class"/&gt;
897&lt;/jacoco:instrument&gt;
898</pre>
899
900<p>
901  The task definition can contain any number of resource collection types and
902  has the following mandatory attribute:
903</p>
904
905<table class="coverage">
906  <thead>
907    <tr>
908      <td>Attribute</td>
909      <td>Description</td>
910      <td>Default</td>
911    </tr>
912  </thead>
913  <tbody>
914    <tr>
915      <td><code>destdir</code></td>
916      <td>Directory location to write the instrumented files to.</td>
917      <td><i>none (required)</i></td>
918    </tr>
919    <tr>
920      <td><code>removesignatures</code></td>
921      <td>If set to <code>true</code> all signature related information is
922          stripped from JARs. This is typically necessary as instrumentation
923          breaks the signatures of the original class files.</td>
924      <td><code>true</code></td>
925    </tr>
926  </tbody>
927</table>
928
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