Basepath option to show relative path names in report output

[Hounddog]

I am currently running php_codesniffer on jenkins with a vagrant-aws plugin.
When i run phpcs on the vagrant box and generate the report i get a fullpath starting at /vagrant/src/...

Once i copy this back to jenkins however the path doesnt match anymore.

Is there a way to generate reports with a base path or relative path?

[aik099]

How come, that you generate report on one machine and use it on another machine?

[Hounddog]

As mentioned i use jenkins. I set up the test environment using vagrant-aws and also generate all the reports on the "vagrant" machine and then just syncronize the reports back to the host. This way i dont have to install any dependencies on jenkins and can keep my whole development/test environment boxed.

[gsherwood]

There is no base path setting. Have you tried just passing a relative path to phpcs?

phpcs temp.php --report-file=./report.txt

[gsherwood]

Oh sorry, I think I misunderstood what you are asking.

If you mean: can the report output contain a relative path instead of an absolute path to the files

The answer is: no

Your best option right now is to generate the file and then run a command over it to replace the /vagrant/src/... bit with whatever prefix you need for the other machine.

[Hounddog]

i figured as much. Would be great to generate it relative or absolute or with an own base path. Thanks for the quick reply though

[gsherwood]

Thanks for clarifying for me. Seems like a good feature request.

[muffl0n]

@Hounddog, like mentioned in #522 the violations plugin in jenkins works perfectly with absolute paths and even refuses to display the file content when I use relative paths. Maybe you have to modify your reports with a script after you moved them from your VM to your jenkins machine?

[aik099]

Maybe instead you need to have some kind of report file transformation script that would fix paths as needed by machine that reads the report.