RequireEmptyLineBeforeBlockTagGroupCheck

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package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.javadoc;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.StatelessCheck;
import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.DetailNode;
import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.JavadocCommentsTokenTypes;
import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.utils.CommonUtil;
import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.utils.JavadocUtil;

/**
 * <div>
 * Checks that one blank line before the block tag if it is present in Javadoc.
 * </div>
 *
 * @since 8.36
 */
@StatelessCheck
public class RequireEmptyLineBeforeBlockTagGroupCheck extends AbstractJavadocCheck {

    /**
     * The key in "messages.properties" for the message that describes a tag in javadoc
     * requiring an empty line before it.
     */
    public static final String MSG_JAVADOC_TAG_LINE_BEFORE = "javadoc.tag.line.before";

    /**
     * Case when space separates the tag and the asterisk like in the below example.
     * <pre>
     *  /**
     *   * &#64;param noSpace there is no space here
     * </pre>
     */
    private static final List<Integer> ONLY_TAG_VARIATION_1 = Arrays.asList(
            JavadocCommentsTokenTypes.TEXT,
            JavadocCommentsTokenTypes.LEADING_ASTERISK,
            JavadocCommentsTokenTypes.NEWLINE);

    /**
     * Case when no space separates the tag and the asterisk like in the below example.
     * <pre>
     *  /**
     *   *&#64;param noSpace there is no space here
     * </pre>
     */
    private static final List<Integer> ONLY_TAG_VARIATION_2 = Arrays.asList(
            JavadocCommentsTokenTypes.LEADING_ASTERISK,
            JavadocCommentsTokenTypes.NEWLINE);

    /**
     * Returns only javadoc tags so visitJavadocToken only receives javadoc tags.
     *
     * @return only javadoc tags.
     */
    @Override
    public int[] getDefaultJavadocTokens() {
        return new int[] {
            JavadocCommentsTokenTypes.JAVADOC_BLOCK_TAG,
        };
    }

    @Override
    public int[] getRequiredJavadocTokens() {
        return getAcceptableJavadocTokens();
    }

    /**
     * Logs when there is no empty line before the tag.
     *
     * @param tagNode the at tag node to check for an empty space before it.
     */
    @Override
    public void visitJavadocToken(DetailNode tagNode) {
        // No need to filter token because overridden getDefaultJavadocTokens ensures that we only
        // receive JAVADOC_BLOCK_TAG DetailNode.
        if (!isAnotherTagBefore(tagNode)
                && !isOnlyTagInWholeJavadoc(tagNode)
                && hasInsufficientConsecutiveNewlines(tagNode)) {
            final String tagName = JavadocUtil.getTagName(tagNode);
            log(tagNode.getLineNumber(),
                    MSG_JAVADOC_TAG_LINE_BEFORE,
                    "@" + tagName);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns true when there is a javadoc tag before the provided tagNode.
     *
     * @param tagNode the javadoc tag node, to look for more tags before it.
     * @return true when there is a javadoc tag before the provided tagNode.
     */
    private static boolean isAnotherTagBefore(DetailNode tagNode) {
        boolean found = false;
        DetailNode currentNode = tagNode.getPreviousSibling();
        while (currentNode != null) {
            if (currentNode.getType() == JavadocCommentsTokenTypes.JAVADOC_BLOCK_TAG) {
                found = true;
                break;
            }
            currentNode = currentNode.getPreviousSibling();
        }
        return found;
    }

    /**
     * Returns true when there are is only whitespace and asterisks before the provided tagNode.
     * When javadoc has only a javadoc tag like {@literal @} in it, the JAVADOC_TAG in a JAVADOC
     * detail node will always have 2 or 3 siblings before it. The parse tree looks like:
     * <pre>
     * JAVADOC_CONTENT[3x0]
     * |--NEWLINE[3x0] : [\n]
     * |--LEADING_ASTERISK[4x0] : [ *]
     * |--TEXT[4x2] : [ ]
     * |--JAVADOC_BLOCK_TAG[4x3] : [@param T The bar.\n ]
     * </pre>
     * Or it can also look like:
     * <pre>
     * JAVADOC_CONTENT[3x0]
     * |--NEWLINE[3x0] : [\n]
     * |--LEADING_ASTERISK[4x0] : [ *]
     * |--JAVADOC_BLOCK_TAG[4x3] : [@param T The bar.\n ]
     * </pre>
     * We do not include the variation
     * <pre>
     *  /**&#64;param noSpace there is no space here
     * </pre>
     * which results in the tree
     * <pre>
     * JAVADOC_CONTENT[3x0]
     * |--JAVADOC_BLOCK_TAG[4x3] : [@param noSpace there is no space here\n ]
     * </pre>
     * because this one is invalid. We must recommend placing a blank line to separate &#64;param
     * from the first javadoc asterisks.
     *
     * @param tagNode the at tag node to check if there is nothing before it
     * @return true if there is no text before the tagNode
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("InvalidInlineTag")
    private static boolean isOnlyTagInWholeJavadoc(DetailNode tagNode) {
        final List<Integer> previousNodeTypes = new ArrayList<>();
        DetailNode currentNode = tagNode.getPreviousSibling();

        while (currentNode != null) {
            previousNodeTypes.add(currentNode.getType());
            currentNode = currentNode.getPreviousSibling();
        }
        return ONLY_TAG_VARIATION_1.equals(previousNodeTypes)
                || ONLY_TAG_VARIATION_2.equals(previousNodeTypes);
    }

    /**
     * Returns true when there are not enough empty lines before the provided tagNode.
     *
     * <p>Iterates through the previous siblings of the tagNode looking for empty lines until
     * there are no more siblings or it hits something other than asterisk, whitespace or newline.
     * If it finds at least one empty line, return true. Return false otherwise.</p>
     *
     * @param tagNode the tagNode to check if there are sufficient empty lines before it.
     * @return true if there are not enough empty lines before the tagNode.
     */
    private static boolean hasInsufficientConsecutiveNewlines(DetailNode tagNode) {
        int count = 0;
        DetailNode currentNode = tagNode.getPreviousSibling();
        while (currentNode != null
                && (CommonUtil.isBlank(currentNode.getText())
                || currentNode.getType() == JavadocCommentsTokenTypes.LEADING_ASTERISK)) {
            if (currentNode.getType() == JavadocCommentsTokenTypes.NEWLINE) {
                count++;
            }
            currentNode = currentNode.getPreviousSibling();
        }

        return count <= 1;
    }
}