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Sometimes Prolint may raise a warning you don't agree with.
For example, rule "noundo" might warn that a specific temp-table is defined without NO-UNDO while you are certain that not using no-undo
is intentional.


In such cases you may want to suppress the Prolint warning.


There are two separate ways to suppress warnings:

1. mark the statement with a _proparse_ directive
2. use filters

Finally, if you really completely disagree with a rule, you can put it in the "skiprules" list. In that case Prolint will pretend the rule does not exist at all. The "skiprules" list is file "prolint/custom/rules/skiprules.lst". Its format is simple: each line contains one rule-id.

_proparse_ directives

Let's begin with an example:

{&_proparse_ prolint-nowarn(noundo)}
DEFINE TEMP-TABLE tt_mytable 
   FIELD code AS CHAR
   FIELD desc AS CHAR INIT "<description>"
   INDEX idx_code AS PRIMARY UNIQUE code.

When Prolint executes rule "noundo" it will simply skip the statement, the statement is invisible to the rule.

Prolint will still give a warning for rule "abbrevkwd" because INIT is an abbreviation for INITIAL, and a warning for
rule "strattrib" because "<description>" does not have any string attributes.


If you are sure you want to suppress these warnings too, you can extend the _proparse_ directive to:

{&_proparse_ prolint-nowarn(noundo,abbrevkwd,strattrib)}
DEFINE TEMP-TABLE tt_mytable 
   FIELD code AS CHAR
   FIELD desc AS CHAR INIT "<description>"
   INDEX idx_code AS PRIMARY UNIQUE code.

Note:

There is no way to suppress all warnings.
There is also no way to suppress warnings for a larger scope than just one single statement.
This is intentional: adding _proparse_ directives is meant to be more work than fixing the cause of the warning.

Another note:
Please don't use the _proparse_ directive immediately after the ELSE keyword.

/* this does not work and confuses the parser: */
IF False THEN 
   RUN first.p.
ELSE
   {&_proparse_ prolint-nowarn(runname)}
   RUN Second.p.
/* this is better: */
IF False THEN 
   RUN first.p.
ELSE DO:
   {&_proparse_ prolint-nowarn(runname)}
   RUN Second.p.
END.   
    
/* or this is also fine: */
{&_proparse_ prolint-nowarn(runname)}
IF False THEN 
   RUN first.p.
ELSE
   RUN Second.p.

filters

Filters intercept warnings after they are created by a rule, but before they are published to outputhandlers. Filters can modify or hide warnings.

You can create new filters, or configure existing filters. See topic "filter plug-ins" for more information.