PMD Files

24-April-2021 - 6.34.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 6.34.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

• New and noteworthy
  • New rules
  • Modified rules
  • Deprecated rules
• Fixed Issues
• API Changes
• External Contributions
• Stats

New and noteworthy

New rules

• The new Java rule UseStandardCharsets finds usages of Charset.forName, where StandardCharsets can be used instead.

  This rule is also part of the Quickstart Ruleset (rulesets/java/quickstart.xml) for Java.

• The new Java rule UnnecessaryImport replaces the rules UnusedImports, DuplicateImports, ImportFromSamePackage, and DontImportJavaLang.

  This rule is also part of the Quickstart Ruleset (rulesets/java/quickstart.xml) for Java.

Modified rules

• The Apex rule ApexCRUDViolation does not ignore getters anymore and also flags SOQL/SOSL/DML operations without access permission checks in getters. This will produce false positives now for VF getter methods, but we can't reliably detect, whether a getter is a VF getter or not. In such cases, the violation should be suppressed.

Deprecated rules

• java-bestpractices

  • UnusedImports: use the rule UnnecessaryImport instead

• java-codestyle

  • DuplicateImports: use the rule UnnecessaryImport instead
  • DontImportJavaLang: use the rule UnnecessaryImport instead

• java-errorprone

  • ImportFromSamePackage: use the rule UnnecessaryImport instead

Fixed Issues

• apex-performance
  • #3198: [apex] OperationWithLimitsInLoopRule: Support more limit consuming static method invocations
• apex-security
  • #3202: [apex] ApexCRUDViolationRule fails to report CRUD violation on COUNT() queries
  • #3210: [apex] ApexCRUDViolationRule false-negative on non-VF getter
• java-bestpractices
  • #3190: [java] Use StandardCharsets instead of Charset.forName
  • #3224: [java] UnusedAssignment crashes with nested records
• java-codestyle
  • #3128: [java] New rule UnnecessaryImport, deprecate DuplicateImports, ImportFromSamePackage, UnusedImports
• java-errorprone
  • #2757: [java] CloseResource: support Lombok's @Cleanup annotation
  • #3169: [java] CheckSkipResult: NPE when using pattern bindings

API Changes

No changes.

External Contributions

• #3193: [java] New rule: UseStandardCharsets - Andrea Aime
• #3198: [apex] OperationWithLimitsInLoopRule: Support more limit consuming static method invocations - Jonathan Wiesel
• #3211: [apex] ApexCRUDViolationRule: Do not assume method is VF getter to avoid CRUD checks - Jonathan Wiesel
• #3234: [apex] ApexCRUDViolation: COUNT is indeed CRUD checkable since it exposes data (false-negative) - Jonathan Wiesel

Stats

• 74 commits
• 18 closed tickets & PRs
• Days since last release: 27