PMD 6.7.0 released
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PMD 6.7.0 released
02 September 2018
02-September-2018 - 6.7.0
The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 6.7.0.
This is a minor release.
Table Of Contents
New and noteworthy
Modified Rules
New Rules
Deprecated Rules
Fixed Issues
API Changes
External Contributions
New and noteworthy
Modified Rules
The Java rule OneDeclarationPerLine (java-bestpractices) has been revamped to
consider not only local variable declarations, but field declarations too.
New Rules
The new Java rule LinguisticNaming (java-codestyle)
detects cases, when a method name indicates it returns a boolean (such as isSmall()) but it doesn’t.
Besides method names, the rule also checks field and variable names. It also checks, that getters return
something but setters won’t. The rule has several properties with which it can be customized.
The new PL/SQL rule ForLoopNaming (plsql-codestyle)
enforces a naming convention for “for loops”. Both “cursor for loops” and “index for loops” are covered.
The rule can be customized via patterns. By default, short variable names are reported.
The new Java rule FieldNamingConventions (java-codestyle)
detects field names that don’t comply to a given convention. It defaults to standard Java convention of using camelCase,
but can be configured with ease for e.g. constants or static fields.
The new Apex rule OneDeclarationPerLine (apex-codestyle) enforces declaring a
single field / variable per line; or per statement if the strictMode property is set.
It’s an Apex equivalent of the already existing Java rule of the same name.
Deprecated Rules
The Java rules VariableNamingConventions, MIsLeadingVariableName,
SuspiciousConstantFieldName, and AvoidPrefixingMethodParameters are
now deprecated, and will be removed with version 7.0.0. They are replaced by the more general
FieldNamingConventions, FormalParameterNamingConventions, and
LocalVariableNamingConventions.
Fixed Issues
core
#1191: [core] Test Framework: Sort violations by line/column
#1283: [core] Deprecate ReportTree
#1288: [core] No supported build listeners found with Gradle
#1300: [core] PMD stops processing file completely, if one rule in a rule chain fails
#1317: [ci] Coveralls hasn’t built the project since June 25th
java-bestpractices
#940: [java] JUnit 4 false positives for JUnit 5 tests
#1267: [java] MissingOverrideRule: Avoid NoClassDefFoundError with incomplete classpath
#1323: [java] AvoidUsingHardCodedIP ignores match pattern
#1327: [java] AvoidUsingHardCodedIP false positive for “:bee”
java-codestyle
#1255: [java] UnnecessaryFullyQualifiedName false positive: static method on shadowed implicitly imported class
#1258: [java] False positive “UselessParentheses” for parentheses that contain assignment
java-errorprone
#1078: [java] MissingSerialVersionUID rule does not seem to catch inherited classes
java-performance
#1291: [java] InvalidSlf4jMessageFormat false positive: too many arguments with string concatenation operator
#1298: [java] RedundantFieldInitializer - NumberFormatException with Long
jsp
#1274: [jsp] Support EL in tag attributes
#1276: [jsp] add support for jspf and tag extensions
plsql
#681: [plsql] Parse error with Cursor For Loop
API Changes
All classes in the package net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.dfa.report have been deprecated and will be removed
with PMD 7.0.0. This includes the class net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.dfa.report.ReportTree. The reason is,
that this class is very specific to Java and not suitable for other languages. It has only been used for
YAHTMLRenderer, which has been rewritten to work without these classes.
The nodes RUNSIGNEDSHIFT and RSIGNEDSHIFT are deprecated and will be removed from the AST with PMD 7.0.0.
These represented the operator of ShiftExpression in two cases out of three, but they’re not needed and
make ShiftExpression inconsistent. The operator of a ShiftExpression is now accessible through
ShiftExpression#getOperator.
External Contributions
#109: [java] Add two linguistics rules under naming - Arda Aslan
#1254: [ci] [GSoC] Integrating the danger and pmdtester to travis CI - BBG
#1258: [java] Use typeof in MissingSerialVersionUID - krichter722
#1264: [cpp] Fix NullPointerException in CPPTokenizer:99 - Rafael Cortês
#1277: [jsp] #1276 add support for jspf and tag extensions - Jordi Llach
#1275: [jsp] Issue #1274 - Support EL in tag attributes - Jordi Llach
#1278: [ci] [GSoC] Use pmdtester 1.0.0.pre.beta3 - BBG
#1289: [java] UselessParentheses: Fix false positive with assignments - cobratbq
#1290: [docs] [GSoC] Create the documentation about pmdtester - BBG
#1256: [java] #940 Avoid JUnit 4 false positives for JUnit 5 tests - Alex Shesterov
#1315: [apex] Add OneDeclarationPerStatement rule - Jeff Hube
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