com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks
Class UpperEllCheck

java.lang.Object
  extended by com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean
      extended by com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AbstractViolationReporter
          extended by com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.Check
              extended by 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
getCustomMessages, getId, getMessageBundle, getSeverity, getSeverityLevel, 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()
Description copied from class: Check
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)
Description copied from class: Check
Called to process a token.

Overrides:
visitToken in class Check
Parameters:
aAST - the token to process

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