ConsecutiveLiteralAppends.md

Pattern: Consecutive literal appends

Issue: -

Description

Violations occur when method calls to append(Object) are chained together with literals as parameters. The chained calls can be joined into one invocation.

Example of violations:

writer.append('foo').append('bar')      // strings can be joined
writer.append('foo').append(5)          // string and number can be joined
writer.append('Hello').append("$World") // GString can be joined

Example of passing code:

// usage not chained invocation
writer.append('Hello')
writer.append('World')

writer.append(null).append(5)           // nulls cannot be joined

writer.append().append('Hello')             // no arg append is unknown
writer.append('a', 'b').append('Hello')     // two arg append is unknown

Further Reading

• CodeNarc - ConsecutiveLiteralAppends