Disable checks for an entire package.

I’m adding error-prone to a legacy project and have the need to disable/ignore an entire package.

This package is a transplant from a third-party dependency that isn’t published as a consumable artifact but also requires a very small tweak to work in my usage. Since I want to reduce the changes to this package so future updates are easy, I’m hesitant to go in and annotation every type with a suppression for every violation therein.

Unfortunately the @SuppressWarnings annotation can’t be targeted at packages so I can’t use it in a package-info.java either (not sure this would have worked anyway).

Is there any other way of suppressing checks for an entire package? And if not, what do you think about introducing a mechanism for this (e.g., an exclude flag which was a list of globs)?

[kageiit]

I think it very useful to have a glob/pattern matching solution where error prone can skip all analysis on generated code for example. Then it is not purely controlled by an annotation

[noel-yap]

I have a similar need regarding generated code (gRPC-generated code specifically).