Find coding patterns

[Daniel Schneller]

Hi!

I am looking for a way to detect certan patterns in our project's code.
For example I'd like to find all occurences of something like

LOOP
|
+-- CLASS_INSTANCEOF_CERTAINSUPERCLASS.METHODCALL


I. e. I'd like to find out, if and where someone calls methods of
classes of a certain superclass in any kind of loop, because usually
those classes contain only methods that should be called with caution.

Would Checkstyle be suitable? As far as I have seen it concentrates on
syntactic problems, but for the "instanceof" check I'd have to have a
little more of a semantic means of checking.

I'd be happy to hear about any other tool (preferrably with Eclipse
integration) or way to find such things.

Daniel

 

[bugbear]

Hi!

I am looking for a way to detect certan patterns in our project's code.
For example I'd like to find all occurences of something like

LOOP
|
+-- CLASS_INSTANCEOF_CERTAINSUPERCLASS.METHODCALL


I. e. I'd like to find out, if and where someone calls methods of
classes of a certain superclass in any kind of loop, because usually
those classes contain only methods that should be called with caution.

take a look at findbug, which does something similar and is
extensible/customisable

BugBear

 

[Andrea Desole]

take a look at findbug, which does something similar and is
extensible/customisable

Maybe you meant FindBugs?

http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

 

[Daniel Schneller]

Maybe you meant FindBugs?

http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

Thank you!
I will take a look at it. Any other hints/suggestions would still be
highly appreciated

Daniel

 

[Andrea Desole]

Thank you!
I will take a look at it. Any other hints/suggestions would still be
highly appreciated

Forgot to mention that: I just heard someone talking about PMD, but I
don't know that much about it (don't know that much about FindBugs either):

http://pmd.sourceforge.net/

 

[Andrew McDonagh]

Hi!

I am looking for a way to detect certan patterns in our project's code.
For example I'd like to find all occurences of something like

LOOP
|
+-- CLASS_INSTANCEOF_CERTAINSUPERCLASS.METHODCALL


I. e. I'd like to find out, if and where someone calls methods of
classes of a certain superclass in any kind of loop, because usually
those classes contain only methods that should be called with caution.

Would Checkstyle be suitable? As far as I have seen it concentrates on
syntactic problems, but for the "instanceof" check I'd have to have a
little more of a semantic means of checking.

I'd be happy to hear about any other tool (preferrably with Eclipse
integration) or way to find such things.

Daniel

Take a look at PMD, there's loads of rules supplied and you can write
your own too.

http://pmd.sourceforge.net/

 

[bugbear]

Maybe you meant FindBugs?

http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

(see recursion

BugBear