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

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.EmptyStatementCheck

All Implemented Interfaces:

Configurable, Contextualizable

public class EmptyStatementCheck
extends Check

Detects empty statements (standalone ';'). Empty statements often introduce bugs that are hard to spot, such as in

 if (someCondition);
   doConditionalStuff();
 doUnconditionalStuff();
 

An example of how to configure the check is:

 <module name="EmptyStatement"/>
 

Version:

1.0

Author:

Rick Giles

Constructor Summary

EmptyStatementCheck()

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

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

EmptyStatementCheck

public EmptyStatementCheck()

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

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