Re: Checking that StringBuffer constructor not called with a char!

Oliver Burn wrote:
> This type of Check required deep type information that Checkstyle does 
> not collect. This type of Check is best written in FindBugs.
OK I will ask findbugs. I thought that as char is int findbugs would not 
be able to
find that the argument is a char and not an int but maybe I'm wrong. I 
don't know
how is written the bytecode.

Thank you.

Xavier.
>
> On 2/13/07, *Xavier Outhier * <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I've just watched to
>     http://www.denverjug.org/meetings/files/200408_Puzzles.pdf
>     (or the multimedia version:
>     http://www.javalobby.org/eps/more-puzzlers/).
>     Yes, that's not really new stuff.
>
>     Check new StringBuffer(char)
>     I was wondering if there is a way to configure checkstyle to check
>     if the constructor of StringBuffer is not called with a char that
>     is indeed
>     interpreted as an int and then set the size of the StringBuffer
>     and not
>     initilize with the string of one character
>     So new StringBuffer('M'); should provide a warning
>
>     Do I new to write my own checker?
>
>     Thanks for any tips,
>
>     Xavier.
>
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