com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.whitespace

Class GenericWhitespaceCheck

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.GenericWhitespaceCheck

All Implemented Interfaces:

Configurable, Contextualizable

public class GenericWhitespaceCheck
extends Check

Checks that the whitespace around the Generic tokens (angle brackets) "<" and ">" are correct to the typical convention. The convention is not configurable.

Left angle bracket ("<"):

• should be preceded with whitespace only in generic methods definitions.
• should not be preceded with whitespace when it is precede method name or following type name.
• should not be followed with whitespace in all cases.

Right angle bracket (">"):

• should not be preceded with whitespace in all cases.
• should be followed with whitespace in almost all cases, except diamond operators and when preceding method name.

Examples with correct spacing:

 public void <K, V extends Number> boolean foo(K, V) {}  // Generic methods definitions
 class name<T1, T2, ..., Tn> {}                          // Generic type definition
 OrderedPair<String, Box<Integer>> p;              // Generic type reference
 boolean same = Util.<Integer, String>compare(p1, p2);   // Generic preceded method name
 Pair<Integer, String> p1 = new Pair<>(1, "apple");// Diamond operator
 

Author:

Oliver Burn

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
GenericWhitespaceCheck()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	beginTree(DetailAST rootAST) Called before the starting to process a tree.
int[]	getDefaultTokens() Returns the default token a check is interested in.
void	visitToken(DetailAST ast) Called to process a token.

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

destroy, finishTree, getAcceptableTokens, getClassLoader, getFileContents, getLine, getLines, getRequiredTokens, 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

GenericWhitespaceCheck

public GenericWhitespaceCheck()

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 rootAST)

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:

rootAST - the root of the tree

visitToken

public void visitToken(DetailAST ast)

Description copied from class: Check

Called to process a token.

Overrides:

visitToken in class Check

Parameters:

ast - the token to process