Affects PMD Version: 6.1.0
Rule: LawOfDemeter
Description: Since java 1.8 a lambda expression like this System.out::println can be used.
A "Potential violation of Law of Demeter (method chain calls)" is reported when a lambda expression is used as a parameter for a method.
Result files:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<pmd xmlns="http://pmd.sourceforge.net/report/2.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://pmd.sourceforge.net/report/2.0.0 http://pmd.sourceforge.net/report_2_0_0.xsd"
version="6.1.0" timestamp="2018-04-01T15:08:32.567">
<file name="F:\Project\Java\demeter\src\main\java\SimpleClass.java">
<violation beginline="5" endline="5" begincolumn="9" endcolumn="52" rule="LawOfDemeter" ruleset="Design" class="SimpleClass" method="simpleMethod" externalInfoUrl="https://pmd.github.io/pmd-6.1.0/pmd_rules_java_design.html#lawofdemeter" priority="3">
Potential violation of Law of Demeter (method chain calls)
</violation>
</file>
</pmd>
Code Sample demonstrating the issue:
import java.util.function.Consumer;
public class SimpleClass{
public void simpleMethod() {
anotherSimpleMethod(System.out::println, 10);
}
public <T> void anotherSimpleMethod(Consumer<T> consumer, T value) {
consumer.accept(value);
}
}
Running PMD through: Gradle
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse'
apply plugin: 'pmd'
repositories {
mavenLocal()
mavenCentral()
}
pmd{
toolVersion = "6.1.0"
ruleSetFiles = files("config/pmd/defaultRuleSet.xml")
ruleSets = []
}
<ruleset
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" name="Android Application Rules"
xmlns="http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset/1.0.0" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset_xml_schema.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset/1.0.0 http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset_xml_schema.xsd">
<description>Standard rule set</description>
<rule ref="category/java/design.xml/LawOfDemeter"/>
</ruleset>
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