Package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.design

Contains the Class Design checks that are bundled with the main distribution.

Class Summary

Class	Description
DesignForExtensionCheck	Checks that classes are designed for extension (subclass creation).
FinalClassCheck	Ensures that identifies classes that can be effectively declared as final are explicitly marked as final.
FinalClassCheck.ClassDesc	Maintains information about the class.
FinalClassCheck.TypeDeclarationDescription	Maintains information about the type of declaration.
HideUtilityClassConstructorCheck	Makes sure that utility classes (classes that contain only static methods or fields in their API) do not have a public constructor.
HideUtilityClassConstructorCheck.Details	Details of class that are required for validation.
InnerTypeLastCheck	Checks nested (internal) classes/interfaces are declared at the bottom of the primary (top-level) class after all init and static init blocks, method, constructor and field declarations.
InterfaceIsTypeCheck	Implements Joshua Bloch, Effective Java, Item 17 - Use Interfaces only to define types.
MutableExceptionCheck	Ensures that exception classes (classes with names conforming to some pattern and explicitly extending classes with names conforming to other pattern) are immutable, that is, that they have only final fields.
OneTopLevelClassCheck	Checks that each top-level class, interface, enum or annotation resides in a source file of its own.
ThrowsCountCheck	Restricts throws statements to a specified count.
VisibilityModifierCheck	Checks visibility of class members.