Suppress "Unsupported @SuppressWarnings("PMD")" warning

[acanda]

The Eclipse Java compiler creates warnings for unsupported @SuppressWarnings token. It would be nice if the eclipse-pmd plugin could suppress these warnings for the PMD and PMD.xyz token.

[acanda]

Unfortunately, the supported @SuppressWarnings token are hard-coded into the compiler and there is no possibility to extend the list of supported token or prevent the compiler from generating the warnings.

The only way to suppress these warning is to globally ignore all unhandled token in @SuppressWarnings:
Window > Preferences > Java > Compiler > Errors/Warnings > Annotations > Unhandled token in @SuppressWarnings: Ignore

[slaout]

This has the disadvantage that Eclipse does not report any unsupported token at all!

There is a bug report on Eclipse project: feel free to support this issue: bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=392045

[acanda]

There's also a much older issue on the Eclipse project for the same thing: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=122475
Feel free to support this issue as well.