Replace a PMD rule in a ruleset

MSAL

Updates <rule ref="..."/> references and <exclude name="..."/> elements in PMD ruleset XML files to name a rule's replacement. An <exclude> is only renamed when the replacement lives in the same ruleset file, because an exclusion can only name a rule from the ruleset its enclosing <rule> refers to; when the replacement moved to another ruleset file the exclusion no longer names a rule PMD knows, so it is removed instead.

org.openrewrite.java.pmd.ReplacePmdRule

Required

oldRuleString

The rule to replace, either a fully qualified reference such as category/java/errorprone.xml/MissingBreakInSwitch or just the rule name, in which case the rule is replaced regardless of which ruleset file it is referenced from.

newRuleString

The rule to replace it with. Give a fully qualified reference when the replacement lives in a different ruleset file; a bare rule name keeps the existing ruleset file.

mod run . --recipe=org.openrewrite.java.pmd.ReplacePmdRule \
  -P oldRule=category/java/errorprone.xml/MissingBreakInSwitch \
  -P newRule=ImplicitSwitchFallThrough

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