com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks

Class TodoCommentCheck

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.AbstractFormatCheck

com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.TodoCommentCheck

All Implemented Interfaces:

Configurable, Contextualizable

public class TodoCommentCheck
extends AbstractFormatCheck

A check for TODO comments. Actually it is a generic regular expression matcher on Java comments. To check for other patterns in Java comments, set property format.

An example of how to configure the check is:

 <module name="TodoComment"/>
 

An example of how to configure the check for comments that contain WARNING is:

 <module name="TodoComment">
    <property name="format" value="WARNING"/>
 </module>
 

Version:

1.0

Author:

Oliver Burn

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
TodoCommentCheck() Creates a new TodoCommentCheck instance.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
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.checks.AbstractFormatCheck

getFormat, getRegexp, setCompileFlags, setFormat

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

getCustomMessages, getId, getMessageBundle, getSeverity, getSeverityLevel, log, setId, 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

TodoCommentCheck

public TodoCommentCheck()

Creates a new TodoCommentCheck instance.

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:

TokenTypes

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