Intellij checkstyle - setting path relative to the module

Question

My company is switching from Eclipse to IntelliJ. In Eclipse we had a following configuration for suppression filters in checkstyle.xml

Answer 1

The Checkstyle integration in Eclipse is more powerful in some respects than the one in IntelliJ. This is one such case, I believe.

I would recommend changing the Checkstyle setup so that you have only one Checkstyle configuration and a central suppressions file for all modules. As you will see, modules are more tightly related in IntelliJ than projects are in Eclipse, so this is actually a good idea.

In order to keep module-specific configuration and/or suppressions, you would have to do the following:

1. Define all of the module-specific configurations in the central Checkstyle settings (so you have module1-rules, module2-rules etc. in your list).
2. In each module, select the appropriate configuration from the drop-down box.

This is quite a lot of work though, so I think you will find centralizing the configuration more convenient. (By the way, here are the supported variables, none of which will help you, I'm afraid.)

Answer 2

Thanks to Thomas Jensen's answer, I solved my very same problem. I answered in detail in this question. Hope it helps.