Package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.javadoc

Class JavadocBlockTagLocationCheck

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    Configurable, Contextualizable
    public class JavadocBlockTagLocationCheck
extends AbstractJavadocCheck
    Checks that a javadoc block tag appears only at the beginning of a line, ignoring leading asterisks and white space. A block tag is a token that starts with @ symbol and is preceded by a whitespace. This check ignores block tags in comments and inside inline tags {@code } and {@literal }.

    Rationale: according to the specification all javadoc block tags should be placed at the beginning of a line. Tags that are not placed at the beginning are treated as plain text. To recognize intentional tag placement to text area it is better to escape the @ symbol, and all non-escaped tags should be located at the beginning of the line. See NOTE section for details on how to escape.

    To place a tag explicitly as text, escape the @ symbol with HTML entity @ or place it inside {@code }, for example: 

     /**
  * @serial literal in {@code @serial} Javadoc tag.
  */
    • Property tags - Specify the javadoc tags to process. Type is java.lang.String[]. Default value is author, deprecated, exception, hidden, param, provides, return, see, serial, serialData, serialField, since, throws, uses, version.
    • Property violateExecutionOnNonTightHtml - Control when to print violations if the Javadoc being examined by this check violates the tight html rules defined at Tight-HTML Rules. Type is boolean. Default value is false.

    Parent is com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.TreeWalker

    Violation Message Keys:

    • javadoc.blockTagLocation
    • javadoc.missed.html.close
    • javadoc.parse.rule.error
    • javadoc.unclosedHtml
    • javadoc.wrong.singleton.html.tag
    Since:
    8.24