CHANGELOG.md

Version History

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• Added -v / --verbose command line switch
• Fixed null pointer exception with module level fields on static targets
• Moved from munit+mcover to utest+instrument

version 2.9.0 (2024-06-10)

• New check FileNameCase to check file names match module names (#527)
• Fixed XMLReporter to no longer escape / to / (#527)

version 2.8.5 (2023-02-15)

• Fixed inner assignement check to allow assignment in arrow functions, fixes #259
• Updated tokentree lib

version 2.8.4 (2023-01-05)

• Fixed null pointer reference in BaseReporter, fixes #517 (#518)
• Fixed null pointer reference in JSONReporter (#516)
• Fixed C++ compilation on nightly

version 2.8.3 (2022-09-21)

• Fixed MagicNumber check to support numeric separators and suffixes (#515)

version 2.8.2 (2022-09-14)

• Updated haxeparser and tokentree libs to support latest Haxe nightly syntax (#514)

version 2.8.1 (2022-09-07)

• Added support for inline markup (#513)
• Retired Haxe 4.1.5 compile support (#513)

version 2.8.0 (2022-08-24)

• New check CommentedOutCode to check comments for commented out code fragments (#512)
• Fixed Haxe nightly compilation (#505)
• Added related messages to reporters for CodeSimilarity check (#506)
• Fixed null pointer exception in UnusedImport check (#507)
• Updated to Haxe 4.2.4 (#512)
• Retired Haxe 4.0.5 compile support (#512)

version 2.7.0 (2020-12-23)

• Breaking Change replaced EnforceVarTypeHint with VarTypeHint check (#500)
• Added support for final in MagicNumber, fixes #494 (#495)
• Fixed handling OBJECT_DECL token in RightCurly, fixes #496 (#497)
• Reorganised build files (#498)
• Refactored for tokentree API change (#500 + #501)
• Updated haxeparser lib with latest syntax changes (#502)
• Retired Haxe 3.4.7 compile support (#502)

version 2.6.1 (2019-12-17)

• Added allowFinal setting to VariableInitialisation, fixes #491 (#492)
• Changed message of Final check when detecting public static var (#493)
• Changed message of ModifierOrder check to include actual and expected modifier order (#493)

version 2.6.0 (2019-12-01)

• Breaking Change changed MethodLength.countEmpty into ignoreEmptyLines (#486)
• New check CodeSimilarity to check for similar or identical code blocks (#479 + #480 + #484 + #486 + #488)
• New check EnforceVarTypeHint to enforce type hints for all variables and finals, fixes #464 (#481 + #482)
• New check AvoidIdentifier marks identifiers to avoid (#483)
• New check ArrowFunction to check for curlies, nested functions and returns in arrow functions (#484)
• New check NestedControlFlow to check for nested control flow expressions (e.g. if, for, while, do/while, switch and try) (#485)
• Added coverage upload to codeclimate (#478)
• Added ignoreEmptyLines in FileLengthCheck to ignore empty lines (default = true) (#486)
• Added support for final in DocCommentStyle and FieldDocComment checks (#487)
• Added suggestion to use final for public static var fields in Final check (#487)
• Added ringbuffer for similarity hashes allowing vscode extension (and others) to manage cache (#488)
• Changed default value for max in FileLengthCheck to 1000 (#486)
• Changed MethodLength check to use tokentree (#486)
• Changed reported position for FieldDocComment and MethodLength to only include function signature (#487)
• Changed Dynamic check implementation to tokentree, now only reports token location (#489)
• Fixed range exclusion to allow excluding construtor (new) (#479)
• Fixed reported positions for FieldDocComment, MethodLength, ParameterNumber, RedundantModifier and ReturnCount checks (#488)
• Refactored build system to use lix (#478)
• Refactored / renamed AvoidInlineConditionals to AvoidTernaryOperator (#479)
• Refactored / renamed InlineFinal to Final (#487)

version 2.5.0 (2019-10-10)

• Breaking Change split OperatorWhitespaceCheck.functionArgPolicy into arrowFunctionPolicy, oldFunctionTypePolicy and newFunctionTypePolicy #467
• Breaking Change using -- for long options in cli (#472)
• New check BlockBreakingConditional (#471)
• New check InlineFinal (#472)
• Added afterDocCommentField to ExtendedEmptyLinesCheck (#469)
• Added thread support for eval target (#469)
• Added allowTrailingComma to SeparatorWhitespaceCheck and WhitespaceAfterCheck (#470)
• Added FINAL to ModifierOrder check default (#472)
• Added NodeJS detection to launch NodeJS version if available (#475)
• Fixed enum abstract detection in MagixNumber check, fixes #104 (#449)
• Fixed indentation of ), fixes #450 (#451)
• Fixed typedef extension (Haxe 3.x) #452
• Fixed parentheses with dot #454
• Fixed double for #455
• Fixed indentation in brackets #456
• Fixed return indentation #457
• Fixed indentation of arrow #459
• Fixed position change of semicolon #460
• Fixed TypeDocCommentCheck with conditionals, fixes #465 (#467)
• Fixed suppression of UnnecessaryConstructor, fixes #466 (#467)
• Fixed Java regexp issue in IndentationCheck (#468)
• Fixed empty lines between types with conditionals (#469)
• Fixed empty lines before comments with conditionals (#472)
• Fixed EFunction changes in Haxe 4rc4 (#474)
• Fixed null pointer references for C++ (#476)
• Changed return block indentation #453
• Changed applied formatter #461
• Refactored coverage reporting #462

version 2.4.2 (2018-07-01)

• New check DocCommentStyle #440
• New check FieldDocComment, fixes #87 (#442 + #444)
• New check TypeDocComment #440
• New check RedundantAccessMeta, fixes #193 (#445)
• New check RedundantAllowMeta, fixes #193 (#445)
• Added relaxed mode to ConfigParser, fixes #441 (#443)
• Fixed handling of comments between types in ExtendedEmptyLines #440
• Fixed unittest and coverage reporting for Haxe 4 #442
• Fixed indentation calculation for functions bodys without curly braces #443
• Fixed segmentaion faults in NeedBraces and CatchParameterName checks #443
• Fixed reported position of EmptyBlock check #444
• Fixed BrOpen detection in NeedBraces check #446
• Changed message of NestedForLoop check #443
• Changed autodetection for nested for/if/try checks to start at zero #444
• Refactored Checker.getLinePos to use binary search, reduces runtime from O(N/2) to O(log N) #439

version 2.4.1 (2018-06-14)

• Added JSON schemas for checkstyle.json and checkstyle-exclude.json file formats #431 + #432 + #433
• Added code documentation #433
• Added message codes to help with vscode-checkstyle quickfixes #436
• Added TIntersection handling #436
• Added buildJS.hxml
• Fixed reported character positions #435
• Changed default policy of ExtendedEmptyLines check to upto #434
• Moved token tree into separate library #434
• Release of "Haxe Checkstyle" extension for vscode

version 2.4.0 (2018-06-02)

• New check ExtendedEmptyLines #426 + #427
• Added check's names to text output #420
• Added version number to configuration file #422
• Added ranges to exclude configuration, fixes #120 (#424)
• Fixed handling of relative paths when using extendsConfigPath #420
• Fixed detection of absolute paths when using extendsConfigPath #422
• Fixed reported position of Indentation check #421
• Fixed Haxe 4 compilation and reenabled Travis CI development build #423 + #425
• Fixed Codeclimate reporter output for C++ target #428
• Fixed segmentation fault when checking zero length files #428
• Improved if / else detection of RightCurly check #421
• Improved support for eval target and Haxe 4 #423
• Refactored configuration parser #420
• Refactored check exclusion handling #424
• Refactored comment placement in token tree #429
• Cleanup checkstyle.json #427

version 2.3.1 (2018-05-16)

• New command line option -show-parser-errors to include parser errors into checkstyle results (default: off) #413
• Added more checks for automatic coding style detection #414 + #417
• Fixed handling of Arrow in type names in TokenTree #413
• Fixed handling of Dot after KwdNew in TokenTree #413
• Fixed line number reported for MethodCount check #415
• Fixed position info for AvoidStarImport, Trace, UnnecessaryConstructor, UnusedLocalVar and UnusedImport checks #416
• Improved automatic detection of coding style by not stopping at the first change in number of violations #415
• Improved handling of file content and class parsing in TokenTree #413
• Refactored handling of internal errors (parsing and checks) #413
• Cleanup command line options #418
• Removed -report command line option #418

version 2.3.0 (2018-05-07)

• New extendsConfigPath field to config files, fixes #401 (#407 + #408)
• New experimental command line option -detect <filename> to generate a checkstyle configuration file based on a source folder #409 + #410
• Added conditionalPolicy to Indentation check #411
• Fixed sort order of detected checkstyle configuration #410
• Fixed null pointer exception when parsing fails on C++ #411
• Improved detection rate for RightCurlyCheck #411
• Refactored indentation check messages #409

version 2.2.2 (2018-05-02)

• Fixed handling of default setters/getters in indentation check #391
• Fixed token tree structure for Sharp(If) inside Kwd(KwdCase) #394
• Fixed comments in function parameters #395
• Fixed parser errors when handling block and object declarations, fixes #396 (#397)
• Fixed BkOpen childs in token tree parser #398
• Fixed bad offset crash with C++ build on Windows 10 #398
• Fixed object declaration handling #399
• Fixed false positives for files with UTF-8 characters when running as vscode-checkstyle #402
• Fixed comments in typedefs #404 + #405
• Refactored content handling to use Bytes instead of String (should fix #98) #402
• Added unittests for ParserQueue and CheckerPool #393
• Added unittests for TokenTree structure verification #400
• Removed . from default settings in SeparatorWrapCheck #400
• Improved wrapped code detection #392 + #403

version 2.2.1 (2018-04-22)

• New check IndentationCheck #387
• New CHANGES.md
• Added a reset function for checks (#279)
• Added unittest for #78
• Fixed XMLReporter output after introducing multithreading in 2.2.0 #389
• Updated formula for number of pre-parsed files #386
• Removed conditional section for unittest #181

version 2.2.0 (2018-04-18)

• Added support for Binop(OpIn) #352 (#359)
• Added 1 parser and n checker threads (#374)
  • use -checkerthreads n to change number of checker threads (range:1-15 default: 5)
  • use -nothreads to turn off threads and use old behaviour
  • use numberOfCheckerThreads in config file to set number of checker threads (see resources/default-conmfig.json)
• Fixed allow same regex logic for "all" excludes, fixes #361 (#362)
• Fixed altering position info in RightCurlyCheck (#367)
• Fixed multiple metadatas infront of statement (#369)
• Fixed C++ compilation (#376)
• Fixed coverage (#378)
• Fixed compilation to JS (used in vscode-checkstyle extension) (#379)
• Fixed support for comments in var and parameter definitions, fixes #363 (#364)
• Fixed support for expression metadata in token tree, fixes #365 (#366)
• Refactored object decl handling in token tree (#372)
• Refactored unit testing from haxe.unit to munit (#377)
• Removed Patreon link (#375)