Exclude companion object

[gvolpe]

Hi, I'm wondering whether it is possible to exclude a companion object?

Given:

object Animal {
  def apply: Animal = ???
}

class Animal {
  ???
}

Is it possible just to exclude the object Animal and not the class? I can't make it work with the exclusion rules.

[gvolpe]

Also, if I have something like this:

object Animal {
  def apply: Animal = ???
}

class Animal extends AbstractAnimal {
  ???
}

class AbstractAnimal {
  ???
}

And I just want to exclude both object and class Animal I can't make it work. Adding coverageExcludedPackages := ".*Animal*" excludes everything.

[Facsimiler]

Caveat, I haven't tried this, but...

Would using an exclusion string of "^.*\.Animal\$$" filter out just the Animal object? The names of generated object types will have a $ suffix, so the object is actually named Animal$; the $ needs to be escaped by a backslash so that it is treated literally. The second $ is the regular expression match for the end of the line, so that it can't be followed by anything else.

(BTW, I'm assuming that these elements are part of a package. If not, try a regex of just "^Animal\$$" so that it doesn't look for a period (.) at the start of the name.)

If that doesn't work, you can also use the comment exclusion approach:

// $COVERAGE-OFF$Don't include companion object in coverage analysis.
object Animal {
  def apply: Animal = ???
}
// $COVERAGE-ON$

class Animal {
  ???
}

// etc.

Let me know if that does the trick...

(EDIT: More on Java regular expressions.)

[gvolpe]

Hi @MichaelJAllen, thanks but unfortunately doesn't do the trick, I just tried...

I was aware about the comment exclusion approach but I don't like it. I'd rather keep my code clean than have a "non-real" higher test coverage.