Hello, I am using the Apache Common XML file to format my code submissions in Eclipse. Gilles says my last submission has some CheckStyle warnings, so I installed the CheckStyle plugin. It gives tons of warnings, including some that go against the posted style guidelines, such as "All public methods must advertise all exceptions they generate...". It also complains about lines being too wide, but the XML file configuration does not wrap certain types of lines. There are lots of others, including spaces following the asterisks in the javadocs, which surely the autoformatter could handle.
I admit that I am using CheckStyle for the first time, so maybe it is a simpler process to fix that it first appears. But it seems like an annoying barrier to entry for contributors who submit working code to have to figure out which lines to reformat spaces, wrapping, exceptions etc. Is there not an automatic way that the committers of the project can auto format the code without CheckStyle warnings? If not, I wonder why formatting with the supplied XML file does not drastically reduce the number of CheckStyle warnings. Thanks, Jared Email Disclaimer: www.stjude.org/emaildisclaimer Consultation Disclaimer: www.stjude.org/consultationdisclaimer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
