com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks
Class UpperEllCheck

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.UpperEllCheck

All Implemented Interfaces:

Configurable, Contextualizable

public class UpperEllCheck
extends Check

Checks that long constants are defined with an upper ell. That is 'L' and not 'l'. This is in accordance to the Java Language Specification, Section 3.10.1.

Rationale: The letter l looks a lot like the number 1.

Examples

To configure the check:

 <module name="UpperEll"/>
 

Version:

1.0

Author:

Oliver Burn

Constructor Summary

UpperEllCheck()

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

getId, getMessageBundle, getSeverity, getSeverityLevel, log, log, log, log, log, log, log, log, 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

UpperEllCheck

public UpperEllCheck()

Method Detail

getDefaultTokens

public int[] getDefaultTokens()

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)

Called to process a token.

Overrides:

visitToken in class Check

Parameters:

aAST - the token to process