Vscode-java: Launching Compilation through tasks.json - recommendation for problemMatcher

[joewood]

What's the recommendation for a configure problemMatcher in tasks.json?

Environment

• Operating System: RHEL7
• JDK version: 8
• Visual Studio Code version: 1.7.2
• Java extension version:

[fbricon]

We're not using problemMatchers so I can't really help other than say just follow the instructions from https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/tasks#_defining-a-problem-matcher.

But the java extension already returns compilation or syntax errors. What exactly are you trying to achieve?

[william-lohan]

Not sure if its the scope of this extension but it'd be nice if an extension defined $java as in you could use

{
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "tasks": [
        {
            "label": "someTask",
            "type": "shell",
            "command": "java -jar path/to/my.jar",
            "problemMatcher": ["$java"],
        }
    ]
}

in task.json

[rcdailey]

I use VS Code to build android projects using Gradle. Would be nice to have the PROBLEMS tab show errors & warnings from Gradle, Java, and C++ code.