When running PMD in command line, I get output showing the number of violations and errors. But, I'd like to know the details of those "Errors".
I am using "pmd-bin-7.0.0-rc4" and get output similar to the below, in command line:
Processing files 100% [========] 5289/5289 (0:01:57) Violations:47300, Errors:5
I would like to know what those 5 Errors are. I tried using the --debug flag, but that just dumps a lot of trace and debug information I don't need. How can I view log output for the Errors?
Yes, with --debug you would see the errors, but you also see many other log messages.
The errors are actually so-called "processing errors". Depending on the report format, they are also provided in the generated report. E.g. the XML format will contain the processing errors at the end in <error> elements. Also the HTML format contains the processing errors.
You can select the output format with --format, e.g. --format xml.