com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.coding
Class InnerAssignmentCheck

java.lang.Object
  extended bycom.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean
      extended bycom.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AbstractViolationReporter
          extended bycom.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.Check
              extended bycom.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.coding.InnerAssignmentCheck
All Implemented Interfaces:
Configurable, Contextualizable

public class InnerAssignmentCheck
extends Check

Checks for assignments in subexpressions, such as in String s = Integer.toString(i = 2);.

Rationale: With the exception of for iterators, all assignments should occur in their own toplevel statement to increase readability. With inner assignments like the above it is difficult to see all places where a variable is set.

By default the check will check the following assignment operators: ASSIGN, BAND_ASSIGN, BOR_ASSIGN, BSR_ASSIGN, BXOR_ASSIGN, DIV_ASSIGN, MINUS_ASSIGN, MOD_ASSIGN, PLUS_ASSIGN, SL_ASSIGN, SR_ASSIGN, STAR_ASSIGN.

An example of how to configure the check is:

 <module name="InnerAssignment"/>
 

An example of how to configure the check for only =, +=, and -= operators is:

 <module name="InnerAssignment">
    <tokens>ASSIGN, PLUS_ASSIGN, MINUS_ASSIGN</tokens>
 </module>
 

Author:
lkuehne

Constructor Summary
InnerAssignmentCheck()
           
 
Method Summary
 int[] getDefaultTokens()
          Returns the default token a check is interested in.
 void visitToken(DetailAST aAST)
          Called to process a token.
 
Methods inherited from class com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.Check
beginTree, destroy, finishTree, getAcceptableTokens, getClassLoader, getFileContents, getLines, getRequiredTokens, getTabWidth, getTokenNames, init, leaveToken, log, log, setClassLoader, setFileContents, setMessages, setTabWidth, setTokens
 
Methods inherited from class com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AbstractViolationReporter
getMessageBundle, getSeverity, getSeverityLevel, log, log, log, log, log, log, log, log, log, setSeverity
 
Methods inherited from class com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean
configure, contextualize, finishLocalSetup, getConfiguration, setupChild
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

InnerAssignmentCheck

public InnerAssignmentCheck()
Method Detail

getDefaultTokens

public int[] getDefaultTokens()
Description copied from class: Check
Returns the default token a check is interested in. Only used if the configuration for a check does not define the tokens.

Specified by:
getDefaultTokens in class Check
Returns:
the default tokens
See Also:
Check

visitToken

public void visitToken(DetailAST aAST)
Description copied from class: Check
Called to process a token.

Overrides:
visitToken in class Check
Parameters:
aAST - the token to process
See Also:
Check

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