Package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks

Class OrderedPropertiesCheck

java.lang.Object

com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.AbstractAutomaticBean

com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AbstractViolationReporter

com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AbstractFileSetCheck

com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.OrderedPropertiesCheck

All Implemented Interfaces:

Configurable, Contextualizable, FileSetCheck

public class OrderedPropertiesCheck
extends AbstractFileSetCheck

Detects if keys in properties files are in correct order.

Rationale: Sorted properties make it easy for people to find required properties by name in file. This makes it easier to merge. While there are no problems at runtime. This check is valuable only on files with string resources where order of lines does not matter at all, but this can be improved. E.g.: checkstyle/src/main/resources/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/messages.properties You may suppress warnings of this check for files that have a logical structure like build files or log4j configuration files. See SuppressionFilter. <suppress checks="OrderedProperties" files="log4j.properties|ResourceBundle/Bug.*.properties|logging.properties"/>

Known limitation: The key should not contain a newline. The string compare will work, but not the line number reporting.

• Property fileExtensions - Specify the file extensions of the files to process. Type is java.lang.String[]. Default value is .properties.

Parent is com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.Checker

Violation Message Keys:

• properties.notSorted.property
• unable.open.cause

Since:

8.22

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class	Description
private static final class	OrderedPropertiesCheck.SequencedProperties	Private property implementation that keeps order of properties like in file.

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.AbstractAutomaticBean

AbstractAutomaticBean.OutputStreamOptions

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static final String	MSG_IO_EXCEPTION_KEY	Localization key for IO exception occurred on file open.
static final String	MSG_KEY	Localization key for check violation.
private static final Pattern	SPACE_PATTERN	Pattern matching single space.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
OrderedPropertiesCheck()	Construct the check with default values.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
private static int	getIndex(int startLineNo, FileText fileText, String keyName)	Inner method to get the index number of the position of keyName.
private static Pattern	getKeyPattern(String keyName)	Method returns regular expression pattern given key name.
private static int	getLineNumber(int startLineNo, FileText fileText, String previousProp, String propKey)	Method returns the index number where the key is detected (starting at 0).
protected void	processFiltered(File file, FileText fileText)	Processes the file and check order.

Methods inherited from class com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AbstractFileSetCheck

addViolations, beginProcessing, destroy, finishProcessing, fireErrors, getFileContents, getFileExtensions, getMessageDispatcher, getTabWidth, getViolations, init, log, log, process, setFileContents, setFileExtensions, setMessageDispatcher, setTabWidth

Methods inherited from class com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AbstractViolationReporter

finishLocalSetup, getCustomMessages, getId, getMessageBundle, getSeverity, getSeverityLevel, setId, setSeverity

Methods inherited from class com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.AbstractAutomaticBean

configure, contextualize, getConfiguration, setupChild

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.Configurable

configure

Methods inherited from interface com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.Contextualizable

contextualize

Field Details

MSG_KEY

public static final String MSG_KEY

Localization key for check violation.

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

MSG_IO_EXCEPTION_KEY

public static final String MSG_IO_EXCEPTION_KEY

Localization key for IO exception occurred on file open.

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

SPACE_PATTERN

private static final Pattern SPACE_PATTERN

Pattern matching single space.

Constructor Details

OrderedPropertiesCheck

public OrderedPropertiesCheck()

Construct the check with default values.

Method Details

processFiltered

protected void processFiltered(File file,
 FileText fileText)

Processes the file and check order.

Specified by:

processFiltered in class AbstractFileSetCheck

Parameters:

file - the file to be processed

fileText - the contents of the file.

getLineNumber

private static int getLineNumber(int startLineNo,
 FileText fileText,
 String previousProp,
 String propKey)

Method returns the index number where the key is detected (starting at 0). To assure that we get the correct line it starts at the point of the last occurrence. Also, the previousProp should be in file before propKey.

Parameters:

startLineNo - start searching at line

fileText - FileText object contains the lines to process

previousProp - key name found last iteration, works only if valid

propKey - key name to look for

Returns:

index number of first occurrence. If no key found in properties file, 0 is returned

getIndex

private static int getIndex(int startLineNo,
 FileText fileText,
 String keyName)

Inner method to get the index number of the position of keyName.

Parameters:

startLineNo - start searching at line

fileText - FileText object contains the lines to process

keyName - key name to look for

Returns:

index number of first occurrence. If no key found in properties file, 0 is returned

getKeyPattern

private static Pattern getKeyPattern(String keyName)

Method returns regular expression pattern given key name.

Parameters:

keyName - key name to look for

Returns:

regular expression pattern given key name