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[Feature Request] File based regex rules

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
cli, tooling

Research direction

Start at the code-analyzer CLI entry point that loads code-analyzer.yml and trace how regex custom_rules are parsed. Review how an external YAML rule file could be referenced and shared, then verify that existing inline rules continue to work alongside file-based rules in a representative CLI run.

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Description

Product Area

The "code-analyzer" CLI

Your Need or Problem

Allow for regex rules to be placed into their own files and referenced from code-analyzer.yml so that they can be more easily shared between projects instead of merging them into existing files.

Your Desired Solution

Lets say we had the rule:

name: Salesforce Code Analyzer Configuration
version: 1.0.0

rulesets: []

engines:
    regex:
        custom_rules:
            ProhibitSuppressWarnings:
                regex: /@SuppressWarnings\([^)]*\)|\/\/\s*NOPMD/gi
                file_extensions: ['.apex', '.cls', '.trigger']
                description:
                    'Prohibits the use of @SuppressWarnings annotations and
                    NOPMD comments in Apex code. Suppressions hide code quality
                    issues; prefer fixing the underlying problems or improving
                    rules instead.'
                violation_message:
                    'Suppression of warnings is not allowed. Fix the underlying
                    issue or improve the rule instead of suppressing violations.'
                severity: 'High'
                tags: ['CodeStyle', 'Recommended']

I would like to take the details of that rule and put them in a different .yaml file, then refer to that .yaml file from code-analyzer.yml

Alternatives Considered

Keep adding rules to code-analyzer.yml like today, using a pre-processor/script ahead of every run, etc

Additional Context (Screenshots, Files, etc)

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Workaround

No response

Urgency

Low

Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
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Forks
52
Avg merge
9h 48m
Merged PRs (30d)
3

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