com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.coding

Class RequireThisCheck

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.DeclarationCollector

com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.coding.RequireThisCheck

All Implemented Interfaces:

Configurable, Contextualizable

public class RequireThisCheck
extends DeclarationCollector

Checks that code doesn't rely on the "this" default. That is references to instance variables and methods of the present object are explicitly of the form "this.varName" or "this.methodName(args)".

Examples of use:

 <module name="RequireThis"/>
 

An example of how to configure to check this qualifier for methods only:

 <module name="RequireThis">
   <property name="checkFields" value="false"/>
   <property name="checkMethods" value="true"/>
 </module>
 

Limitations: I'm not currently doing anything about static variables or catch-blocks. Static methods invoked on a class name seem to be OK; both the class name and the method name have a DOT parent. Non-static methods invoked on either this or a variable name seem to be OK, likewise.

Much of the code for this check was cribbed from Rick Giles's HiddenFieldCheck.

Author:

Stephen Bloch, o_sukhodolsky

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
RequireThisCheck() Creates new instance of the check.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	getCheckFields()
boolean	getCheckMethods()
int[]	getDefaultTokens() Returns the default token a check is interested in.
int[]	getRequiredTokens() The tokens that this check must be registered for.
void	setCheckFields(boolean aCheckFields) Setter for checkFields property.
void	setCheckMethods(boolean aCheckMethods) Setter for checkMethods property.
void	visitToken(DetailAST aAST) Called to process a token.

Methods inherited from class com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.DeclarationCollector

beginTree, isClassField

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

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

RequireThisCheck

public RequireThisCheck()

Creates new instance of the check.

Method Detail

setCheckFields

public void setCheckFields(boolean aCheckFields)

Setter for checkFields property.

Parameters:

aCheckFields - should we check fields usage or not.

getCheckFields

public boolean getCheckFields()

Returns:

true if we should check fields usage false otherwise.

setCheckMethods

public void setCheckMethods(boolean aCheckMethods)

Setter for checkMethods property.

Parameters:

aCheckMethods - should we check methods usage or not.

getCheckMethods

public boolean getCheckMethods()

Returns:

true if we should check methods usage false otherwise.

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

getRequiredTokens

public 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 DeclarationCollector

Parameters:

aAST - the token to process