Rename "listeners" which hides the field declared at line 41. Open
final Collection<EventListener> listeners = this.listeners;
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Overriding or shadowing a variable declared in an outer scope can strongly impact the readability, and therefore the maintainability, of a piece of code. Further, it could lead maintainers to introduce bugs because they think they're using one variable but are really using another.
Noncompliant Code Example
class Foo { public int myField; public void doSomething() { int myField = 0; ... } }
See
- CERT, DCL01-C. - Do not reuse variable names in subscopes
- CERT, DCL51-J. - Do not shadow or obscure identifiers in subscopes
Change the visibility of this constructor to "protected". Open
public EventDispatch2() {
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Abstract classes should not have public constructors. Constructors of abstract classes can only be called in constructors of their subclasses. So
there is no point in making them public. The protected
modifier should be enough.
Noncompliant Code Example
public abstract class AbstractClass1 { public AbstractClass1 () { // Noncompliant, has public modifier // do something here } }
Compliant Solution
public abstract class AbstractClass2 { protected AbstractClass2 () { // do something here } }
Similar blocks of code found in 2 locations. Consider refactoring. Open
public final void addListener(final EventListener listener) {
synchronized (this) {
if (this.listeners == null) {
this.listeners = createListenerCollection();
}
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Duplicated Code
Duplicated code can lead to software that is hard to understand and difficult to change. The Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) principle states:
Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system.
When you violate DRY, bugs and maintenance problems are sure to follow. Duplicated code has a tendency to both continue to replicate and also to diverge (leaving bugs as two similar implementations differ in subtle ways).
Tuning
This issue has a mass of 42.
We set useful threshold defaults for the languages we support but you may want to adjust these settings based on your project guidelines.
The threshold configuration represents the minimum mass a code block must have to be analyzed for duplication. The lower the threshold, the more fine-grained the comparison.
If the engine is too easily reporting duplication, try raising the threshold. If you suspect that the engine isn't catching enough duplication, try lowering the threshold. The best setting tends to differ from language to language.
See codeclimate-duplication
's documentation for more information about tuning the mass threshold in your .codeclimate.yml
.
Refactorings
- Extract Method
- Extract Class
- Form Template Method
- Introduce Null Object
- Pull Up Method
- Pull Up Field
- Substitute Algorithm
Further Reading
- Don't Repeat Yourself on the C2 Wiki
- Duplicated Code on SourceMaking
- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler. Duplicated Code, p76