com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.coding

Class ExplicitInitializationCheck

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.coding.ExplicitInitializationCheck

All Implemented Interfaces:

Configurable, Contextualizable

public class ExplicitInitializationCheck
extends Check

Checks if any class or object member explicitly initialized to default for its type value (null for object references, zero for numeric types and char and false for boolean.

Rationale: each instance variable gets initialized twice, to the same value. Java initializes each instance variable to its default value (0 or null) before performing any initialization specified in the code. So in this case, x gets initialized to 0 twice, and bar gets initialized to null twice. So there is a minor inefficiency. This style of coding is a hold-over from C/C++ style coding, and it shows that the developer isn't really confident that Java really initializes instance variables to default values.

Author:

o_sukhodolsky

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ExplicitInitializationCheck()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int[]	getDefaultTokens() Returns the default token a check is interested in.
int[]	getRequiredTokens() The tokens that this check must be registered for.
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, getLine, getLines, getTabWidth, getTokenNames, init, isCommentNodesRequired, leaveToken, log, log, setClassLoader, setFileContents, setMessages, setTabWidth, setTokens

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

ExplicitInitializationCheck

public ExplicitInitializationCheck()

Method Detail

getDefaultTokens

public final 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

getRequiredTokens

public final int[] getRequiredTokens()

Description copied from class: Check

The tokens that this check must be registered for.

Overrides:

getRequiredTokens in class Check

Returns:

the token set this must be registered for.

See Also:

TokenTypes

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