PMD For Eclipse 7.1.0.v20240426-0821-r Released

26 April 2024

A new PMD for Eclipse plugin version has been released. It is available via the update site: https://pmd.github.io/pmd-eclipse-plugin-p2-site/

This is a minor release.

New and noteworthy

  • Updated to PMD 7.1.0

Fixed Issues

  • #191: Rule Configuration Pref Page - PropertyDescriptor cannot be cast to Comparable
  • #192: Add japicmp

API Changes

Deprecations

The following classes have been deprecated for removal. Either they were not intended to be public API at all or they were used to support the UI for rule configuration. With the switch to PMD 7.0.0, these editor factories are not used anymore.

  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.editors.AbstractEditorFactory
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.editors.AbstractMultiValueEditorFactory
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.editors.AbstractNumericEditorFactory
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.editors.AbstractRealNumberEditor
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.editors.BooleanEditorFactory
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.editors.CharacterEditorFactory
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.editors.DoubleEditorFactory
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.editors.EnumerationEditorFactory
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.editors.FilePicker
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.editors.IntegerEditorFactory
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.editors.MethodPicker
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.editors.MultiEnumerationEditorFactory
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.editors.MultiIntegerEditorFactory
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.editors.MultiStringEditorFactory
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.editors.RegexEditorFactory
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.editors.StringEditorFactory
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.editors.SWTUtil
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.editors.TypeText

The following members have been deprecated for removal:

  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.dialogs.NewPropertyDialog#NewPropertyDialog(Shell, Map<Class<?>, EditorFactory<?>>, PropertySource, ValueChangeListener)
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.dialogs.NewPropertyDialog#NewPropertyDialog(Shell, Map<Class<?>, EditorFactory<?>>, Rule, PropertyDescriptor<?>, ValueChangeListener)
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.dialogs.NewPropertyDialog#withOnly(Map<Class<?>, EditorFactory<?>>, Class<?>[])
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.panelmanagers.AbstractRulePanelManager.show(TypeText, Class<?>)
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.panelmanagers.FormArranger#FormArranger(Composite, Map<Class<?>, EditorFactory<?>>, ValueChangeListener, SizeChangeListener)
  • net.sourceforge.pmd.eclipse.ui.preferences.panelmanagers.PerRulePropertyPanelManager#EDITOR_FACTORIES_BY_PROPERTY_TYPE

See the javadoc for more info and any possible alternatives if available.