Formatter (PMD Ant Integration 7.7.0 API)

java.lang.Object
- net.sourceforge.pmd.ant.Formatter

```
public class Formatter
extends Object
```
Part of PMD Ant task configuration. Setters of this class are interpreted by Ant as properties settable in the XML. This is therefore published API.
This class is used to configure a specific Renderer for outputting the violations. This is called a formatter in PMD Ant task configuration and might look like this:
```
 <pmd>
   <formatter type="html" toFile="${build}/pmd_report.html"/>
 </pmd>
 
```
See Also:

PMDTask.addFormatter(Formatter)

Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor Description

Formatter()

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`addConfiguredParam(org.apache.tools.ant.types.Parameter parameter)`
`void`	`setShowSuppressed(boolean value)`
`void`	`setToConsole(boolean toConsole)`
`void`	`setToFile(File toFile)`
`void`	`setType(String type)`
`String`	`toString()`

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail
- Formatter
```
public Formatter()
```

Method Detail

setShowSuppressed

public void setShowSuppressed(boolean value)

setType
```
public void setType(String type)
```

setToFile

public void setToFile(File toFile)

setToConsole

public void setToConsole(boolean toConsole)

addConfiguredParam

public void addConfiguredParam(org.apache.tools.ant.types.Parameter parameter)

toString
```
public String toString()
```
Overrides:

toString in class Object