Generate html output for missing files. Closes issue #320.

3 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d6c1e26..3375a71 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ ChangeLog for Pylint
     * Fix a crash which ocurred while checking for 'method-hidden',
       when the parent frame was something different than a function.
 
+    * Generate html output for missing files. Closes issue #320.
+
 
 2014-07-26  --  1.3.0
 
diff --git a/lint.py b/lint.py
index e20e5df..b258c29 100644
--- a/lint.py
+++ b/lint.py
@@ -717,6 +717,11 @@ class PyLinter(OptionsManagerMixIn, MessagesHandlerMixIn, ReportsHandlerMixIn,
             if self.config.persistent:
                 config.save_results(self.stats, self.file_state.base_name)
         else:
+            if self.config.output_format == 'html':
+                # No output will be emitted for the html
+                # reporter if the file doesn't exist, so emit
+                # the results here.
+                self.reporter.display_results(Section())
             self.reporter.on_close(self.stats, {})
 
     # specific reports ########################################################
diff --git a/test/unittest_lint.py b/test/unittest_lint.py
index 7dc7090..91525e3 100644
--- a/test/unittest_lint.py
+++ b/test/unittest_lint.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ from pylint.utils import MSG_STATE_SCOPE_CONFIG, MSG_STATE_SCOPE_MODULE, MSG_STA
     MessagesStore, PyLintASTWalker, MessageDefinition, FileState, \
     build_message_def, tokenize_module
 from pylint.testutils import TestReporter
-from pylint.reporters import text
+from pylint.reporters import text, html
 from pylint import checkers
 from pylint import interfaces
 
@@ -367,6 +367,15 @@ class PyLinterTC(unittest.TestCase):
             ['C:  2: Line too long (175/80)'],
             self.linter.reporter.messages)
 
+    def test_html_reporter_missing_files(self):
+        output = cStringIO.StringIO()
+        self.linter.set_reporter(html.HTMLReporter(output))
+        self.linter.set_option('output-format', 'html')
+        self.linter.check('troppoptop.py')
+        value = output.getvalue()
+        self.assertIn('troppoptop.py', value)
+        self.assertIn('fatal', value)
+
 
 class ConfigTC(unittest.TestCase):