checkstyle.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
    "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.1//EN"
    "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_1.dtd">

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<!-- Checkstyle configuration that checks the commons-configuration coding conventions -->

<module name="Checker">
  <property name="localeLanguage" value="en" />

  <!-- Checks that a package.html file exists for each package. -->
  <!-- See http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_javadoc.html -->
  <module name="JavadocPackage">
    <property name="allowLegacy" value="true" />
  </module>

  <!-- Checks whether files end with a new line. -->
  <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#NewlineAtEndOfFile -->
  <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile" />

  <!-- Checks that property files contain the same keys. -->
  <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#Translation -->
  <module name="Translation" />

  <!-- Checks for Tab characters -->
  <!-- See http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_whitespace.html#FileTabCharacter -->
  <module name="FileTabCharacter">
    <property name="fileExtensions" value="java" />
  </module>

  <!-- Checks for white space at the end of the line -->
  <!-- See http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_regexp.html -->
  <module name="RegexpSingleline">
    <property name="format" value="\s+$" />
    <property name="message" value="Line has trailing spaces." />
    <property name="fileExtensions" value="java" />
  </module>

  <!-- @author tags are deprecated -->
  <module name="RegexpSingleline">
    <property name="format" value="^\s+\*\s+@author\s" />
    <property name="message" value="Deprecated @author tag" />
    <property name="fileExtensions" value="java" />
    <property name="severity" value="warning" />
  </module>

  <!-- Don't use SVN $Date$ variable - it's localized and causes source archives to differ from the SVN tag -->
  <module name="RegexpSingleline">
    <property name="format" value="\$Date.+\$" />
    <property name="message" value="Don't use SVN $Date$ variable" />
    <property name="fileExtensions" value="java" />
    <property name="severity" value="warning" />
  </module>

  <!-- Exceptions -->
  <!--<module name="SuppressionFilter">
    <property name="file" value="conf/checkstyle-suppressions.xml"/>
    </module> -->

  <module name="TreeWalker">

    <property name="cacheFile" value="${checkstyle.cache.file}" />

    <!-- Checks for Javadoc comments. -->
    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html -->
    <module name="JavadocMethod">
      <property name="scope" value="public" />
      <property name="allowUndeclaredRTE" value="true" />
      <property name="allowMissingJavadoc" value="true" />
    </module>
    <!-- http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_javadoc.html#JavadocType -->
    <module name="JavadocType">
      <!-- It is unfortunate to have to do this but checkstyle doesn't allow custom tags -->
      <property name="allowUnknownTags" value="true" />
    </module>
    <module name="JavadocVariable">
      <property name="scope" value="protected" />
    </module>
    <module name="JavadocStyle">
      <property name="scope" value="public" />
    </module>

    <!-- Checks for Naming Conventions. -->
    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_naming.html -->
    <module name="ConstantName">
      <property name="format" value="^[A-Z][A-Z0-9]*(_[A-Z0-9]+)*$|^capabilities$|^log$" />
    </module>
    <module name="LocalFinalVariableName" />
    <module name="LocalVariableName" />
    <module name="MemberName" />
    <module name="MethodName" />
    <module name="PackageName" />
    <module name="ParameterName" />
    <module name="StaticVariableName" />
    <module name="TypeName" />

    <!-- Following interprets the header file as regular expressions. -->
    <!-- <module name="RegexpHeader"/> -->

    <!-- Checks for imports -->
    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_import.html -->
    <module name="AvoidStarImport" />
    <module name="IllegalImport" /> <!-- defaults to sun.* packages -->
    <module name="RedundantImport" />
    <module name="UnusedImports" />

    <!-- Checks for Size Violations. -->
    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
    <!--<module name="FileLength"/> -->
    <module name="LineLength">
      <property name="max" value="120" />
    </module>
    <module name="MethodLength" />
    <module name="ParameterNumber">
      <property name="max" value="10" />
    </module>

    <!-- Checks for whitespace -->
    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
    <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad" />
    <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter" />
    <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore" />
    <module name="OperatorWrap">
      <property name="tokens" value="ASSIGN" />
      <property name="option" value="eol" />
    </module>
    <module name="ParenPad" />
    <module name="WhitespaceAfter" />
    <module name="WhitespaceAround" />
    <module name="GenericWhitespace" />

    <!-- Modifier Checks -->
    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_modifiers.html -->
    <module name="ModifierOrder" />
    <module name="RedundantModifier" />

    <!-- Checks for blocks. You know, those {}'s -->
    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_blocks.html -->
    <module name="AvoidNestedBlocks" />
    <!-- Require empty catch blocks to have at least a comment -->
    <module name="EmptyBlock">
      <property name="option" value="text" />
      <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_CATCH" />
    </module>
    <module name="LeftCurly">
      <property name="option" value="eol" />
    </module>
    <module name="NeedBraces" />
    <module name="RightCurly">
      <property name="option" value="same" />
    </module>

    <!-- Checks for common coding problems -->
    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_coding.html -->
    <module name="CovariantEquals" />
    <module name="EqualsHashCode" />
    <module name="IllegalInstantiation" />
    <!-- <module name="InnerAssignment"/> -->
    <module name="MagicNumber">
      <property name="ignoreNumbers" value="-1,0,1,2,3" />
    </module>
    <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression" />
    <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn" />
    <module name="StringLiteralEquality" />
    <module name="SuperClone" />
    <module name="SuperFinalize" />
    <module name="DeclarationOrder" />
    <!-- <module name="ExplicitInitialization"/> -->
    <module name="DefaultComesLast" />
    <module name="FallThrough" />
    <module name="MultipleVariableDeclarations" />
    <!-- <module name="UnnecessaryParentheses"/> -->

    <!-- Checks for class design -->
    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_design.html -->
    <module name="FinalClass" />
    <module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor" />
    <module name="InterfaceIsType" />
    <module name="VisibilityModifier">
      <property name="protectedAllowed" value="true" />
    </module>

    <!-- Miscellaneous other checks. -->
    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
    <module name="ArrayTypeStyle" />
    <module name="TodoComment">
      <property name="severity" value="info" />
    </module>
    <module name="UpperEll" />

  </module>

</module>