Reportgenerator: Cobertura xml as output format

Created on 3 Jun 2018 · 8Comments · Source: danielpalme/ReportGenerator

Is it possible to export report as Cobertura xml. So that i can use the report in VSTS/ TFS

I know that i can use a custom report. but i just want to know is it already implemented?

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chamikasandamal

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No that is not supported.

Pleased have a look at https://github.com/danielpalme/OpenCoverToCoberturaConverter

danielpalme on 4 Jun 2018

Yes. I had a look on that. but I need to combine Cobertura and dotcover/opencover report using report generator which is currently possible. Then generated report i need to submit. so it seems i need to implement custom report or i have to build custom version of OpenCoverToCoberturaConverter

any other suggestion?

chamikasandamal on 4 Jun 2018

Both approaches will be quite hard to implement.
_OpenCoverToCoberturaConverter_ neither supports _DotCover_ nor does it support merging several input files.

_ReportGenerator_ does not provide enough information to generate a full Cobertura file.

Here is a sample Cobertura snippet:

<package name="test.sub" line-rate="0.0" branch-rate="1.0" complexity="1.0">
    <classes>
        <class name="test.sub.Sub" filename="test/sub/Sub.java" line-rate="0.0" branch-rate="1.0" complexity="1.0">
            <methods>
                <method name="&lt;init&gt;" signature="()V" line-rate="0.0" branch-rate="1.0" complexity="0">
                    <lines>
                        <line number="3" hits="0" branch="false"/>
                    </lines>
                </method>
                <method name="SampleFunction" signature="()V" line-rate="0.0" branch-rate="1.0" complexity="0">
                    <lines>
                        <line number="5" hits="0" branch="false"/>
                        <line number="9" hits="0" branch="false"/>
                    </lines>
                </method>
            </methods>
            <lines>
                <line number="3" hits="0" branch="false"/>
                <line number="5" hits="0" branch="false"/>
                <line number="9" hits="0" branch="false"/>
            </lines>
        </class>
    </classes>
</package>

ReportGenerator does not contain the information to create the <method> elements.

danielpalme on 4 Jun 2018

I was managed to overcome this using custom report

chamikasandamal on 7 Jun 2018

Can you share your code? Then I can add it to ReportGenerator, so everybody can use it.

danielpalme on 8 Jun 2018

The documentation states that Cobertura is one of the output formats. The usage page also includes Cobertura and will generate the following snippet "-reporttypes:Cobertura". When running with this as a report type I receive the error: "Unknown report type 'cobertura'."