EmptyStatement

Since Checkstyle 3.1

Description

Detects empty statements (standalone ";" semicolon). Empty statements often introduce bugs that are hard to spot

Examples

To configure the check: 

<module name="Checker">
  <module name="TreeWalker">
    <module name="EmptyStatement"/>
  </module>
</module>

Example: 

public void foo() {
  int i = 5;
  if (i > 3); // violation, ";" right after if statement
    i++;
  for (i = 0; i < 5; i++); // violation
    i++;
  while (i > 10) // OK
    i++;
}

Example of Usage

Violation Messages

All messages can be customized if the default message doesn't suit you. Please see the documentation to learn how to.

Package

com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.coding

Parent Module

TreeWalker