001/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 002// checkstyle: Checks Java source code and other text files for adherence to a set of rules. 003// Copyright (C) 2001-2025 the original author or authors. 004// 005// This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 006// modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public 007// License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either 008// version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 009// 010// This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 011// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 012// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 013// Lesser General Public License for more details. 014// 015// You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 016// License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software 017// Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA 018/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 019 020package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.coding; 021 022import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.StatelessCheck; 023import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AbstractCheck; 024import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.DetailAST; 025import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.TokenTypes; 026import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.utils.CheckUtil; 027import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.utils.ScopeUtil; 028 029/** 030 * <div> 031 * Checks if any class or object member is explicitly initialized 032 * to default for its type value ({@code null} for object 033 * references, zero for numeric types and {@code char} 034 * and {@code false} for {@code boolean}. 035 * </div> 036 * 037 * <p> 038 * Rationale: Each instance variable gets 039 * initialized twice, to the same value. Java 040 * initializes each instance variable to its default 041 * value ({@code 0} or {@code null}) before performing any 042 * initialization specified in the code. 043 * So there is a minor inefficiency. 044 * </p> 045 * 046 * @since 3.2 047 */ 048@StatelessCheck 049public class ExplicitInitializationCheck extends AbstractCheck { 050 051 /** 052 * A key is pointing to the warning message text in "messages.properties" 053 * file. 054 */ 055 public static final String MSG_KEY = "explicit.init"; 056 057 /** 058 * Control whether only explicit initializations made to null for objects should be checked. 059 **/ 060 private boolean onlyObjectReferences; 061 062 @Override 063 public final int[] getDefaultTokens() { 064 return getRequiredTokens(); 065 } 066 067 @Override 068 public final int[] getRequiredTokens() { 069 return new int[] {TokenTypes.VARIABLE_DEF}; 070 } 071 072 @Override 073 public final int[] getAcceptableTokens() { 074 return getRequiredTokens(); 075 } 076 077 /** 078 * Setter to control whether only explicit initializations made to null 079 * for objects should be checked. 080 * 081 * @param onlyObjectReferences whether only explicit initialization made to null 082 * should be checked 083 * @since 7.8 084 */ 085 public void setOnlyObjectReferences(boolean onlyObjectReferences) { 086 this.onlyObjectReferences = onlyObjectReferences; 087 } 088 089 @Override 090 public void visitToken(DetailAST ast) { 091 if (!isSkipCase(ast)) { 092 final DetailAST assign = ast.findFirstToken(TokenTypes.ASSIGN); 093 final DetailAST exprStart = 094 assign.getFirstChild().getFirstChild(); 095 if (exprStart.getType() == TokenTypes.LITERAL_NULL) { 096 final DetailAST ident = ast.findFirstToken(TokenTypes.IDENT); 097 log(ident, MSG_KEY, ident.getText(), "null"); 098 } 099 if (!onlyObjectReferences) { 100 validateNonObjects(ast); 101 } 102 } 103 } 104 105 /** 106 * Checks for explicit initializations made to 'false', '0' and '\0'. 107 * 108 * @param ast token being checked for explicit initializations 109 */ 110 private void validateNonObjects(DetailAST ast) { 111 final DetailAST ident = ast.findFirstToken(TokenTypes.IDENT); 112 final DetailAST assign = ast.findFirstToken(TokenTypes.ASSIGN); 113 final DetailAST exprStart = 114 assign.getFirstChild().getFirstChild(); 115 final DetailAST type = ast.findFirstToken(TokenTypes.TYPE); 116 final int primitiveType = type.getFirstChild().getType(); 117 if (primitiveType == TokenTypes.LITERAL_BOOLEAN 118 && exprStart.getType() == TokenTypes.LITERAL_FALSE) { 119 log(ident, MSG_KEY, ident.getText(), "false"); 120 } 121 if (isNumericType(primitiveType) && isZero(exprStart)) { 122 log(ident, MSG_KEY, ident.getText(), "0"); 123 } 124 if (primitiveType == TokenTypes.LITERAL_CHAR 125 && isZeroChar(exprStart)) { 126 log(ident, MSG_KEY, ident.getText(), "\\0"); 127 } 128 } 129 130 /** 131 * Examine char literal for initializing to default value. 132 * 133 * @param exprStart expression 134 * @return true is literal is initialized by zero symbol 135 */ 136 private static boolean isZeroChar(DetailAST exprStart) { 137 return isZero(exprStart) 138 || "'\\0'".equals(exprStart.getText()); 139 } 140 141 /** 142 * Checks for cases that should be skipped: no assignment, local variable, final variables. 143 * 144 * @param ast Variable def AST 145 * @return true is that is a case that need to be skipped. 146 */ 147 private static boolean isSkipCase(DetailAST ast) { 148 boolean skipCase = true; 149 150 // do not check local variables and 151 // fields declared in interface/annotations 152 if (!ScopeUtil.isLocalVariableDef(ast) 153 && !ScopeUtil.isInInterfaceOrAnnotationBlock(ast)) { 154 final DetailAST assign = ast.findFirstToken(TokenTypes.ASSIGN); 155 156 if (assign != null) { 157 final DetailAST modifiers = ast.findFirstToken(TokenTypes.MODIFIERS); 158 skipCase = modifiers.findFirstToken(TokenTypes.FINAL) != null; 159 } 160 } 161 return skipCase; 162 } 163 164 /** 165 * Determine if a given type is a numeric type. 166 * 167 * @param type code of the type for check. 168 * @return true if it's a numeric type. 169 * @see TokenTypes 170 */ 171 private static boolean isNumericType(int type) { 172 return type == TokenTypes.LITERAL_BYTE 173 || type == TokenTypes.LITERAL_SHORT 174 || type == TokenTypes.LITERAL_INT 175 || type == TokenTypes.LITERAL_FLOAT 176 || type == TokenTypes.LITERAL_LONG 177 || type == TokenTypes.LITERAL_DOUBLE; 178 } 179 180 /** 181 * Checks if given node contains numeric constant for zero. 182 * 183 * @param expr node to check. 184 * @return true if given node contains numeric constant for zero. 185 */ 186 private static boolean isZero(DetailAST expr) { 187 final int type = expr.getType(); 188 return switch (type) { 189 case TokenTypes.NUM_FLOAT, TokenTypes.NUM_DOUBLE, TokenTypes.NUM_INT, 190 TokenTypes.NUM_LONG -> { 191 final String text = expr.getText(); 192 yield Double.compare(CheckUtil.parseDouble(text, type), 0.0) == 0; 193 } 194 default -> false; 195 }; 196 } 197 198}