Updated PMD rules.

build.gradle

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ mainClassName = 'net.thauvin.erik.httpstatus.Reasons'
 
 ext {
     versions = [
+            pmd: '6.35.0',
             spotbugs: '4.2.3'
     ]
 }
@@ -92,8 +93,8 @@ clean {
 
 test {
     testLogging {
-        exceptionFormat "full"
-        events "passed", "skipped", "failed"
+        exceptionFormat  = "full"
+        events("passed", "skipped", "failed")
     }
 
     useTestNG()
@@ -105,6 +106,7 @@ spotbugs {
 }
 
 pmd {
+    toolVersion = versions.pmd 
     ignoreFailures = true
     ruleSets = []
     ruleSetFiles = files("${projectDir}/config/pmd.xml")
@@ -121,9 +123,9 @@ tasks.withType(Checkstyle) {
 publishing {
     publications {
         mavenJava(MavenPublication) {
-            from components.java
-            groupId project.group
-            artifactId rootProject.name
+            from(components.java)
+            groupId = project.group
+            artifactId = rootProject.name
 
             pom {
                 name = mavenName
@@ -171,19 +173,18 @@ signing {
 
 task copyToDeploy(type: Copy) {
     from(configurations.runtimeClasspath) {
-        exclude 'javax.servlet-api-*.jar'
-        exclude 'jsp-api-*.jar'
+        exclude('javax.servlet-api-*.jar', 'jsp-api-*.jar')
     }
-    from jar
-    into deployDir
+    from(jar)
+    into(deployDir)
 }
 
 task deploy(dependsOn: ['clean', 'build', 'copyToDeploy']) {
     description = "Copies all needed files to the ${deployDir} directory."
     group = 'Publishing'
-    outputs.dir deployDir
-    inputs.files copyToDeploy
-    mustRunAfter clean
+    outputs.dir(deployDir)
+    inputs.files(copyToDeploy)
+    mustRunAfter(clean)
 }
 
 task release(dependsOn: ['wrapper', 'deploy', 'pandoc', 'publishToMavenLocal']) {
@@ -203,8 +204,8 @@ task pandoc(type: Exec) {
     if (Os.isFamily(Os.FAMILY_WINDOWS)) {
         commandLine(['cmd', '/c', 'pandoc'] + pandoc_args)
     } else {
-        executable 'pandoc'
-        args pandoc_args
+        executable = 'pandoc'
+        args(pandoc_args)
     }
     standardOutput = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
     ext.output = {
@@ -220,9 +221,9 @@ jacocoTestReport {
 
 sonarqube {
     properties {
-        property "sonar.organization", "ethauvin-github"
-        property "sonar.projectKey", "ethauvin_HttpStatus"
-        property "sonar.host.url", "https://sonarcloud.io"
+        property("sonar.organization", "ethauvin-github")
+        property("sonar.projectKey", "ethauvin_HttpStatus")
+        property("sonar.host.url", "https://sonarcloud.io")
         property("sonar.sourceEncoding", "UTF-8")
     }
 }