com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.whitespace
Class TabCharacterCheck

java.lang.Object
  com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean
      com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AbstractViolationReporter
          com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.Check
              com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.whitespace.TabCharacterCheck

All Implemented Interfaces:

Configurable, Contextualizable

public class TabCharacterCheck

extends Check

Reports tab characters ('\t') in the source code.

Rationale:

• Developers should not need to configure the tab width of their text editors in order to be able to read source code.
• From the Apache jakarta coding standards: In a distributed development environment, when the cvs commit messages get sent to a mailing list, they are almost impossible to read if you use tabs.

An example of how to configure the check is:

 <module name="TabCharacter"/>
 

Author:

Lars Kühne

Constructor Summary

TabCharacterCheck()

Method Summary

void	beginTree(DetailAST aRootAST) Called before the starting to process a tree.
int[]	getDefaultTokens() Returns the default token a check is interested in.

Methods inherited from class com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.Check

destroy, finishTree, getAcceptableTokens, getClassLoader, getFileContents, getLines, getRequiredTokens, getTabWidth, getTokenNames, init, leaveToken, log, log, setClassLoader, setFileContents, setMessages, setTabWidth, setTokens, visitToken

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

TabCharacterCheck

public TabCharacterCheck()

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

beginTree

public void beginTree(DetailAST aRootAST)

Description copied from class: Check

Called before the starting to process a tree. Ideal place to initialise information that is to be collected whilst processing a tree.

Overrides:

beginTree in class Check

Parameters:

aRootAST - the root of the tree

See Also:

Check