Kover Command Line Interface

This single jar artifact allows using some of the functionality of Kover Toolset through command-line calls.

Java 1.6 or higher is required for execution.

Commands

Offline instrumentation

For information about offline instrumentation, see.

java -jar kover-cli.jar instrument [<class-file-path> ...] --dest <dir> [--exclude <class-name>] [--excludeAnnotation <annotation-name>] [--hits] [--include <class-name>]

Option	Description	Required	Multiple
<class-file-path>	list of the compiled class-files roots	+	+
–dest	path to write instrumented Java classes to	+
–exclude	filter to exclude classes from instrumentation, wildcards * and ? are acceptable. Excludes have priority over includes		+
–excludeAnnotation	filter to exclude annotated classes from instrumentation, wildcards * and ? are acceptable		+
–hits	a flag to enable line hits counting
–include	instrument only specified classes, wildcards * and ? are acceptable		+

Generating reports

Allows you to generate HTML and XML reports from the existing binary report.

java -jar kover-cli.jar report [<binary-report-path> ...] --classfiles <class-file-path> [--exclude <class-name>] [--excludeAnnotation <annotation-name>] [--html <html-dir>] [--include <class-name>] --src <sources-path> [--title <html-title>] [--xml <xml-file-path>]

Option	Description	Required	Multiple
<binary-report-path>	list of binary reports files		+
–classfiles	location of the compiled class-files root (must be original and not instrumented)	+	+
–exclude	filter to exclude classes, wildcards * and ? are acceptable		+
–excludeAnnotation	filter to exclude classes and functions marked by this annotation, wildcards * and ? are acceptable		+
–html	generate a HTML report in the specified path
–include	filter to include classes, wildcards * and ? are acceptable		+
–src	location of the source files root	+	+
–title	title in the HTML report
–xml	generate a XML report in the specified path