<module name="SuppressionFilter">
        <property name="file" value="${config_loc}/suppressions.xml"/>
    </module>
    <!-- allows suppressing using the @SuppressWarnings("checkstyle:...") -->
    <module name="SuppressWarningsFilter"/>
    <module name="TreeWalker">
        <!-- Blocks -->
        <module name="EmptyBlock">
            <property name="option" value="statement"/>

<module name="Checker">
  <property name="charset" value="UTF-8" />

  <module name="SuppressionFilter">
    <property name="file" value="${config_loc}/checkstyle_suppressions.xml" />
  </module>

  <module name="SuppressWarningsFilter" />

  <!-- Checks Java files and forbids empty Javadoc comments. -->
  <!-- Although you can use the "JavadocStyle" rule for this, it considers Javadoc -->
  <!-- that only contains a "@return" line to be empty. -->