How to make a gradle build finish successful with checkstyle errors?

Question

I haven an Android Gradle build that is run on Jenkins.

Jenkins checks checkstyle warnings and errors and publishes the results. If there is a checkstyle error the build stops and is marked as failed. Jenkins also stops and does not publish the checkstyle report.

How can I let the build run through even with checkstyle errors?

Answer 1

There is an even nicer and easier solution than that from Rene. Just add:

checkstyle {
   ignoreFailures = true
}

to your build.gradle file.

Answer 2

The Checkstyle task can be configured to ignore failures:

checkstyleTask.ignoreFailures = true

Answer 3

If you are looking for a solution which provides the above functionality along with error reporting in html format and puts all checkstyle configuration in gradle, take a look at gradle-estilo-plugin.

On a side not, I must point out that I wrote this plugin myself and I use it extensively in all of my projects.