Re: "'<' is not followed by whitespace" question

Miroslav,

these are false positives, see bug #1374798. The way checkstyle
currently handles whitespace and generics is somewhat broken, and a
soon as you nest generics (Map<String, List<String>>) the situation
becomes even worse.

Cheers,
Lars


On 8/8/07, Miroslav Šulc <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am very new to checkstyle. I have a declaration like this:
>
> private static Map<Class, String> cacheSQLSelect =
> new HashMap<Class, String>();
>
> I get these reports in this line:
> '<' is not followed by whitespace.
> '<' is not preceded with whitespace.
> '>' is not followed by whitespace.
> '>' is not preceded with whitespace.
>
> Are these false positives or should there really be spaces around '<'
> and '>'?
>
> I use checkstyle 4.3 and sun_checks.xml.
>
> Thanks for help.
>
> --
> Miroslav Šulc

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