feat: add new suppression xsd allowing grouping of suppressions#7957
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…dency-check#7898). This introduces the optional suppressionGroup element, with which suppressions can be grouped. Attributes can be set on group level and be used as default values for child suppressions. suppresionGroup element is optional. suppressions.xml files that adhere to schema version 1.3 will be valid in schema 1.4 as well.
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praise: thanks for your time on this proposal and your patience! I'm sure people will find it useful! |
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chore: our false-positives documentation displays references to the 1.3.xsd version. The page is located in src/site/markdown/general/suppression.md`. We could upgrade the reference to 1.4 in order to have a documentation being up to date. suggestion(non-blocking): it could also be interesting to add an explanation about the |
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Description of Change
Added new version (1.4) of suppression xsd. This allows the grouping of suppressions and metadata about the groupings. Groupings are optional. Suppression xml can be used as earlier. See issue for reasoning.
Related issues
Issue 7898
Have test cases been added to cover the new functionality?
yes