EmptyStatementCheck.java

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package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.coding;

import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.StatelessCheck;
import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AbstractCheck;
import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.DetailAST;
import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.TokenTypes;

/**
 * <p>
 * Detects empty statements (standalone {@code ";"} semicolon).
 * Empty statements often introduce bugs that are hard to spot
 * </p>
 * <p>
 * To configure the check:
 * </p>
 * <pre>
 * &lt;module name=&quot;EmptyStatement&quot;/&gt;
 * </pre>
 * <p>
 * Example:
 * </p>
 * <pre>
 * public void foo() {
 *   int i = 5;
 *   if (i &gt; 3); // violation, ";" right after if statement
 *     i++;
 *   for (i = 0; i &lt; 5; i++); // violation
 *     i++;
 *   while (i &gt; 10) // OK
 *     i++;
 * }
 * </pre>
 * <p>
 * Parent is {@code com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.TreeWalker}
 * </p>
 * <p>
 * Violation Message Keys:
 * </p>
 * <ul>
 * <li>
 * {@code empty.statement}
 * </li>
 * </ul>
 *
 * @since 3.1
 */
@StatelessCheck
public class EmptyStatementCheck extends AbstractCheck {

    /**
     * A key is pointing to the warning message text in "messages.properties"
     * file.
     */
    public static final String MSG_KEY = "empty.statement";

    @Override
    public int[] getDefaultTokens() {
        return getRequiredTokens();
    }

    @Override
    public int[] getAcceptableTokens() {
        return getRequiredTokens();
    }

    @Override
    public int[] getRequiredTokens() {
        return new int[] {TokenTypes.EMPTY_STAT};
    }

    @Override
    public void visitToken(DetailAST ast) {
        log(ast, MSG_KEY);
    }

}