Package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.header

Class HeaderCheck

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    Configurable, Contextualizable, ExternalResourceHolder, FileSetCheck
    public class HeaderCheck
extends AbstractHeaderCheck
    Checks that a source file begins with a specified header. Property headerFile specifies a file that contains the required header. Alternatively, the header specification can be set directly in the header property without the need for an external file.

    Property ignoreLines specifies the line numbers to ignore when matching lines in a header file. This property is very useful for supporting headers that contain copyright dates. For example, consider the following header: 

     line 1: ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 line 2: // checkstyle:
 line 3: // Checks Java source code for adherence to a set of rules.
 line 4: // Copyright (C) 2002  Oliver Burn
 line 5: ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

    Since the year information will change over time, you can tell Checkstyle to ignore line 4 by setting property ignoreLines to 4.

    In default configuration, if header is not specified, the default value of header is set to null and the check does not rise any violations.

    • Property charset - Specify the character encoding to use when reading the headerFile. Type is java.lang.String. Default value is the charset property of the parent <a href="https://checkstyle.org/config.html#Checker">Checker</a> module.
    • Property fileExtensions - Specify the file extensions of the files to process. Type is java.lang.String[]. Default value is "".
    • Property header - Specify the required header specified inline. Individual header lines must be separated by the string "\n" (even on platforms with a different line separator). Type is java.lang.String. Default value is null.
    • Property headerFile - Specify the name of the file containing the required header. Type is java.net.URI. Default value is null.
    • Property ignoreLines - Specify the line numbers to ignore. Type is int[]. Default value is "".

    Parent is com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.Checker

    Violation Message Keys:

    • header.mismatch
    • header.missing
    Since:
    6.9

    • Method Detail

      • isIgnoreLine

        private boolean isIgnoreLine​(int lineNo)
        Returns true if lineNo is header lines or false.
        Parameters:
        lineNo - a line number
        Returns:
        if lineNo is one of the ignored header lines.

      • isMatch

        private boolean isMatch​(int lineNumber,
                        String line)
        Checks if a code line matches the required header line.
        Parameters:
        lineNumber - the line number to check against the header
        line - the line contents
        Returns:
        true if and only if the line matches the required header line

      • setIgnoreLines

        public void setIgnoreLines​(int... lines)
        Setter to specify the line numbers to ignore.
        Parameters:
        lines - line numbers to ignore in header.
        Since:
        3.2