Description

Rationale:

• Improves code readability by clearly indicating which parameters are unused.
• Follows Java conventions for denoting unused parameters with an underscore (_).

See the Java Language Specification for more information about unnamed variables.

Attention: Unnamed variables are available as a preview feature in Java 21, and became an official part of the language in Java 22. This check should be activated only on source code which meets those requirements.

Examples

To configure the check:

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

Example:

class Example1 {

  int x;

  void test() {
    // violation below, 'Unused lambda parameter 'x' should be unnamed'
    Function<Integer, Integer> f1 = (x) -> this.x + 1;
    // ok below, parameter is unnamed
    Function<Integer, Integer> f2 = (_) -> this.x + 1;
    // ok below, parameter is used
    Function<Integer, Integer> f3 = (x) -> x + 1;
    // violation below, 'Unused lambda parameter 'y' should be unnamed'
    BiFunction<Integer, Integer, Integer> bf1 = (x, y) -> x + this.x;
  }
}
        

Example of Usage

• Checkstyle Style

Violation Messages

• unused.lambda.parameter

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