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cppcheck generates wrong xml structure

I am trying to parse the XML data from the output of cppcheck. But the XML structure seems wrong.

cppcheck src --enable=warning,style,unusedFunction --xml --inconclusive --std=posix --std=c++11 2> error_s.xml

cppcheck XML output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<results version="2">
    <cppcheck version="1.82"/>
    <errors>
        <error id="funcArgNamesDifferent" severity="style" msg="Blah Blah bLah." verbose="Blah Blah Verbose" cwe="628" inconclusive="true">
            <location file="src/DataLayer/ABC.cpp" line="329"/>
            <location file0="src/DataLayer/ABC.cpp" file="src/DataLayer/ABC.h" line="64"/>
            <location file0="src/DataLayer/ABC.cpp" file="src/DataLayer/ABC.h" line="64"/>
            <location file0="src/DataLayer/ABC.cpp" file="src/DataLayer/ABC.h" line="64"/>
        </error>
</errors>
</results>

Shouldn't the location node be inside an array like locations?

        <locations>
            <location file="src/DataLayer/ABC.cpp" line="329"/>
            <location file0="src/DataLayer/ABC.cpp" file="src/DataLayer/ABC.h" line="64"/>
        </locations>
Solution

  • unfortunately it cannot be accessed with out writting too many if-statements ..

    if(isset($location)){

}

    Conversation with CppChecker Developer.. Hopefully it would get fixed when they release v3

    for now, the only way to access is using too many if-Statements.

    if not, there is also library htmlreport which will generate html pages..