Deprecated API

Contents

• Classes
• Methods

Deprecated Classes

Class	Description
com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean	since 10.9.3. Use AbstractAutomaticBean instead.

Deprecated Methods

Method	Description
com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.ant.CheckstyleAntTask.createClasspath()	left in implementation until #12556 only to allow users to migrate to new gradle plugins. This method will be removed in Checkstyle 11.x.x .
com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AbstractCheck.getFileContents()	Usage of this method is no longer accepted. Please use AST based methods instead.
com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.Configuration.getAttribute(String)	This shall be removed in future releases. Please use getProperty(String name) instead.
com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.Configuration.getAttributeNames()	This shall be removed in future releases. Please use getPropertyNames() instead.
com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.DetailAST.branchContains(int)	Usage of this method is no longer accepted. We encourage traversal of subtrees to be written per the needs of each check to avoid unintended side effects.
com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.DetailAST.getNumberOfChildren()	This method will be removed in a future release. Use DetailAST.getChildCount() instead.
com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.FileContents.inPackageInfo()	use CheckUtil.isPackageInfo(String) for the same functionality, or use AbstractCheck.getFilePath() to process your own standards.
com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.DefaultConfiguration.addAttribute(String, String)	This shall be removed in future releases. Please use addProperty(String propertyName, String value) instead.