How to Add a New CPD Language
  1. 1. How it Works
  2. 2. Writing a Custom Rule
  3. 3. Writing XPath Rules
  4. 4. Making Custom Rulesets
  5. 5. Rule Guidelines
  6. 6. Info for Developers
  7. 7. Adding a New Language
  8. → 8. Add a New CPD Language
  9. 9. Compiling PMD

How to Add a New Language to CPD

If you wish CPD to parse a unsupported language, you can easily develop a new parser for CPD. All you need to is implements the following interface:

  • net.sourceforge.pmd.cpd.Language
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.cpd.Tokenizer

Do not forget to the follow the proper naming convention, as the CPD parser factory use this convention:

  • Language Name + “Language”
  • Tokenizer Name + “Tokenizer”

For instance, if you develop a python parser, you should have two classes named PythonLanguage and PythonTokenizer.

To test your parser, just package it in a jar and add your jar to the classpath.

Tags: customizing