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New and noteworthy

Quickstart Ruleset for Apex

PMD provides now a quickstart ruleset for Salesforce.com Apex, which you can use as a base ruleset to get your custom ruleset started. You can reference it with rulesets/apex/quickstart.xml. You are strongly encouraged to create your own ruleset though.

The quickstart ruleset has the intention, to be useful out-of-the-box for many projects. Therefore it references only rules, that are most likely to apply everywhere.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

PMD Designer

The rule designer's codebase has been moved out of the main repository and will be developed at pmd/pmd-designer from now on. The maven coordinates will stay the same for the time being. The designer will still be shipped with PMD's binaries.

New Rules

• The new Java rule {% rule "java/design/AvoidUncheckedExceptionsInSignatures" %} (java-design) finds methods or constructors that declare unchecked exceptions in their throws clause. This forces the caller to handle the exception, even though it is a runtime exception.

• The new Java rule {% rule "java/errorprone/DetachedTestCase" %} (java-errorprone) searches for public methods in test classes, which are not annotated with @Test. These methods might be test cases where the annotation has been forgotten. Because of that those test cases are never executed.

• The new Java rule {% rule "java/bestpractices/WhileLoopWithLiteralBoolean" %} (java-bestpractices) finds Do-While-Loops and While-Loops that can be simplified since they use simply true or false as their loop condition.

Fixed Issues

API Changes

Deprecated API

• {% jdoc core::renderers.CodeClimateRule %} is deprecated in 7.0.0 because it was unused for 2 years and created an unwanted dependency. Properties "cc_categories", "cc_remediation_points_multiplier", "cc_block_highlighting" will also be removed. See #1702 for more.

• The Apex ruleset rulesets/apex/ruleset.xml has been deprecated and will be removed in 7.0.0. Please use the new quickstart ruleset rulesets/apex/quickstart.xml instead.

External Contributions

• #1704: [java] Added AvoidUncheckedExceptionsInSignatures Rule - Bhanu Prakash Pamidi
• #1706: [java] Add DetachedTestCase rule - David Burström
• #1709: [java] Detect while loops with literal booleans conditions - David Burström

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