Allow exclusions per rule or per limit

[joaoluis89]

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Scenario

• JaCoCo version: 0.8.8.202204050719
• Operating system: MacOS Ventura 13.1 (22C65)
• Tool integration: Maven
• Description of your use case: (detailed description or executable reproducer, e.g. GitHub repo)

Current Behaviour

Actually we can make exclusions from coverage in general

Wanted Behaviour

We faced some chalenge where we would like to keep the limit of line coverage to a class, but exclude it from branch coverage.
As a matter of fact, we are using map structs that verifies parameter nullity as a guard condition on its generated classes. We would like to enforce the line coverage of it, but prevent the branch coverage of happening

Possible Workarounds

enable excludes on limits or on rules (although on rules would bring up some concerns about how the execution of the coverage is calculated)

[marchof]

@joaoluis89 For each rule you can specify includes and excludes pattern for the respective entity (e.g. class), see documentation:

https://www.jacoco.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/check-mojo.html#rules