31-May-2024 - 7.2.0

The PMD team is pleased to announce PMD 7.2.0.

This is a minor release.

Table Of Contents

• 🚀 New and noteworthy
  • Collections exposed as XPath attributes
  • Updated PMD Designer
• 🐛 Fixed Issues
• 🚨 API Changes
  • Deprecated API
• ✨ External Contributions
• 📈 Stats

🚀 New and noteworthy

Collections exposed as XPath attributes

Up to now, all AST node getters would be exposed to XPath, as long as the return type was a primitive (boxed or unboxed), String or Enum. That meant that collections, even of these basic types, were not exposed, so for instance accessing Apex's ASTUserClass.getInterfaceNames() to list the interfaces implemented by a class was impossible from XPath, and would require writing a Java rule to check it.

Since this release, PMD will also expose any getter returning a collection of any supported type as a sequence through an XPath attribute. They would require to use apropriate XQuery functions to manipulate the sequence. So for instance, to detect any given ASTUserClass in Apex that implements Queueable, it is now possible to write:

/UserClass[@InterfaceNames = 'Queueable']

Updated PMD Designer

This PMD release ships a new version of the pmd-designer.
For the changes, see PMD Designer Changelog (7.2.0).

🐛 Fixed Issues

• core
  • #4467: [core] Expose collections from getters as XPath sequence attributes
  • #4978: [core] Referenced Rulesets do not emit details on validation errors
  • #4983: [cpd] Fix CPD crashes about unicode escapes
  • #5009: [core] Kotest tests aren't picked up by surefire
• java
  • #4912: [java] Unable to parse some Java9+ resource references
  • #4973: [java] Stop parsing Java for CPD
  • #4980: [java] Bad intersection, unrelated class types java.lang.Object[] and java.lang.Number
  • #4988: [java] Fix impl of ASTVariableId::isResourceDeclaration / VariableId/@ResourceDeclaration
  • #4990: [java] Add an attribute @PackageQualifier to ASTClassType
  • #5006: [java] Bad intersection, unrelated class types Child and Parent<? extends Child>
  • #5029: [java] PMD 7.x throws stack overflow in TypeOps$ProjectionVisitor while parsing a Java class
• java-bestpractices
  • #4278: [java] UnusedPrivateMethod FP with Junit 5 @MethodSource and default factory method name
  • #4852: [java] ReplaceVectorWithList false-positive (neither Vector nor List usage)
  • #4975: [java] UnusedPrivateMethod false positive when using @MethodSource on a @nested test
  • #4985: [java] UnusedPrivateMethod false-positive / method reference in combination with custom object
• java-codestyle
  • #1619: [java] LocalVariableCouldBeFinal on 'size' variable in for loop
  • #3122: [java] LocalVariableCouldBeFinal should consider blank local variables
  • #4903: [java] UnnecessaryBoxing, but explicit conversion is necessary
  • #4924: [java] UnnecessaryBoxing false positive in PMD 7.0.0 in lambda
  • #4930: [java] EmptyControlStatement should not allow empty try with concise resources
  • #4954: [java] LocalVariableNamingConventions should allow unnamed variables by default
  • #5028: [java] FormalParameterNamingConventions should accept unnamed parameters by default
• java-errorprone
  • #4042: [java] A false negative about the rule StringBufferInstantiationWithChar
  • #5007: [java] AvoidUsingOctalValues triggers on non-octal double literals with a leading 0
• java-multithreading
  • #2368: [java] False positive UnsynchronizedStaticFormatter in static initializer

🚨 API Changes

Deprecated API

• pmd-java
  • ASTResource#getStableName and the corresponding attribute @StableName

✨ External Contributions

• #5020: [java] Fix AvoidUsingOctalValues false-positive - Gold856 (@Gold856)

📈 Stats

• 152 commits
• 46 closed tickets & PRs
• Days since last release: 35