Improve error message for checkstyle issues without eclipse-cs

[lmsurpre]

I have an eclipse installation with m2e but no eclipse-cs (I think).

We enabled checkstyle rules for our build and things seemed to work well.
Then I started seeing this weird error on my pom.xml:

It took me quite a while to realize that its saying there was a checkstyle violation in the project and not in the pom.xml file itself.

When I finally ran the build outside of eclipse it gives a nice error message with the actual location of the first violation:
8/7/19, 6:26:06 PM EDT: [ERROR] src/main/java/Redacted.java:[107,21] (whitespace) FileTabCharacter: File contains tab characters (this is the first instance).

Is there any way to get an error like that instead of the not-so-useful "You have 1 Checkstyle violation. (org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-checkstyle-plugin:3.0.0:check:default:validate)" on the pom.xml? If not, is there a way to just disable the checkstyle check within eclipse so it doesn't confuse others?

[vorburger]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2019, 00:34 Lee Surprenant, ***@***.***> wrote: s there any way to get an error like that instead of the not-so-useful

Yes, if you can raise a Pull Request to contribute to this project... ;-)