26 November 2022
The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 6.52.0.
This is a minor release.
InvalidJavaBean
identifies beans, that don’t follow the JavaBeans API specification,
like beans with missing getters or setters.<rule ref="category/java/design.xml/InvalidJavaBean"/>
The Java rule BeanMembersShouldSerialize
has been renamed to
NonSerializableClass
. It has been revamped to only check for classes that are marked with
Serializable
and reports each field in it, that is not serializable.
The property prefix
has been deprecated, since in a serializable class all fields have to be
serializable regardless of the name.
The rule ClassNamingConventions
has a new property testClassPattern
, which is applied
to test classes. By default, test classes should end with the suffix “Test”. Test classes are top-level classes, that
either inherit from JUnit 3 TestCase or have at least one method annotated with the Test annotations from
JUnit4/5 or TestNG.
The property ignoredAnnotations
of rule ImmutableField
has been deprecated and doesn’t
have any effect anymore.
Since PMD 6.47.0, the rule only considers fields, that are initialized once and never changed. If the field is just
declared but never explicitly initialized, it won’t be reported. That’s the typical case when a framework sets
the field value by reflection. Therefore, the property is not needed anymore. If there is a special case where
this rule misidentifies fields as immutable, then the rule should be suppressed for these fields explicitly.
ignoredAnnotations
PMD now supports a new --use-version
flag, which receives a language-version pair (such as java-8
or apex-54
).
This supersedes the usage of -language
/ -l
and -version
/ -v
, allowing for multiple versions to be set in a single run.
PMD 7 will completely remove support for -language
and -version
in favor of this new flag.
Support for -V
is being deprecated in favor of --verbose
in preparation for PMD 7.
In PMD 7, -v
will enable verbose mode and -V
will show the PMD version for consistency with most Unix/Linux tools.
Support for -min
is being deprecated in favor of --minimum-priority
for consistency with most Unix/Linux tools, where -min
would be equivalent to -m -i -n
.
-d
or --dir
as an alias to --files
, in favor of consistency with PMD.
PMD 7 will remove support for --files
in favor of these new flags.Using run.sh cpdgui
will now warn about it being deprecated. Use run.sh cpd-gui
instead.
The old designer (run.sh designerold
) is completely deprecated and will be removed in PMD 7. Switch to the new JavaFX designer: run.sh designer
.
The old visual AST viewer (run.sh bgastviewer
) is completely deprecated and will be removed in PMD 7. Switch to the new JavaFX designer: run.sh designer
for a visual tool, or use run.sh ast-dump
for a text-based alternative.
PMD
and PMD.StatusCode
- PMD 7 will ship with a revamped CLI split from pmd-core. To programmatically launch analysis you can use PmdAnalysis
.PMDConfiguration#getAllInputPaths
- It is now superseded by PMDConfiguration#getInputPathList
PMDConfiguration#setInputPaths
- It is now superseded by PMDConfiguration#setInputPathList
PMDConfiguration#addInputPath
- It is now superseded by PMDConfiguration#addInputPath
PMDConfiguration#getInputFilePath
- It is now superseded by PMDConfiguration#getInputFile
PMDConfiguration#getIgnoreFilePath
- It is now superseded by PMDConfiguration#getIgnoreFile
PMDConfiguration#setInputFilePath
- It is now superseded by PMDConfiguration#setInputFilePath
PMDConfiguration#setIgnoreFilePath
- It is now superseded by PMDConfiguration#setIgnoreFilePath
PMDConfiguration#getInputUri
- It is now superseded by PMDConfiguration#getUri
PMDConfiguration#setInputUri
- It is now superseded by PMDConfiguration#setInputUri
PMDConfiguration#getReportFile
- It is now superseded by PMDConfiguration#getReportFilePath
PMDConfiguration#setReportFile
- It is now superseded by PMDConfiguration#setReportFile
PMDConfiguration#isStressTest
and PMDConfiguration#setStressTest
- Will be removed with no replacement.PMDConfiguration#isBenchmark
and PMDConfiguration#setBenchmark
- Will be removed with no replacement, the CLI will still support it.CPD
and CPD.StatusCode
- PMD 7 will ship with a revamped CLI split from pmd-core. An alterative to programatically launch CPD analysis will be added in due time.DataType#fromBasicType
has been deprecated. The equivalent method fromTypeName
should be used instead.