Method drawDashed
has a Cognitive Complexity of 27 (exceeds 5 allowed). Consider refactoring. Open
public static void drawDashed(final Graphics g, final int xDashed1, final int yDashed1, final int xDashed2, final int yDashed2, final int dashSize, final int gapSize) {
int x1 = xDashed1;
int y1 = yDashed1;
int x2 = xDashed2;
int y2 = yDashed2;
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Cognitive Complexity
Cognitive Complexity is a measure of how difficult a unit of code is to intuitively understand. Unlike Cyclomatic Complexity, which determines how difficult your code will be to test, Cognitive Complexity tells you how difficult your code will be to read and comprehend.
A method's cognitive complexity is based on a few simple rules:
- Code is not considered more complex when it uses shorthand that the language provides for collapsing multiple statements into one
- Code is considered more complex for each "break in the linear flow of the code"
- Code is considered more complex when "flow breaking structures are nested"
Further reading
Method drawDashed
has 48 lines of code (exceeds 25 allowed). Consider refactoring. Open
public static void drawDashed(final Graphics g, final int xDashed1, final int yDashed1, final int xDashed2, final int yDashed2, final int dashSize, final int gapSize) {
int x1 = xDashed1;
int y1 = yDashed1;
int x2 = xDashed2;
int y2 = yDashed2;
Method drawDashed
has 7 arguments (exceeds 4 allowed). Consider refactoring. Open
public static void drawDashed(final Graphics g, final int xDashed1, final int yDashed1, final int xDashed2, final int yDashed2, final int dashSize, final int gapSize) {
Method drawDotted
has 6 arguments (exceeds 4 allowed). Consider refactoring. Open
public static void drawDotted(final Graphics g, final int x1, final int y1, final int x2, final int y2, final float width) {
Refactor this method to reduce its Cognitive Complexity from 27 to the 15 allowed. Open
public static void drawDashed(final Graphics g, final int xDashed1, final int yDashed1, final int xDashed2, final int yDashed2, final int dashSize, final int gapSize) {
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- Exclude checks
Cognitive Complexity is a measure of how hard the control flow of a method is to understand. Methods with high Cognitive Complexity will be difficult to maintain.
See
Add a private constructor to hide the implicit public one. Open
public class GUITasks {
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- Exclude checks
Utility classes, which are collections of static
members, are not meant to be instantiated. Even abstract utility classes, which can
be extended, should not have public constructors.
Java adds an implicit public constructor to every class which does not define at least one explicitly. Hence, at least one non-public constructor should be defined.
Noncompliant Code Example
class StringUtils { // Noncompliant public static String concatenate(String s1, String s2) { return s1 + s2; } }
Compliant Solution
class StringUtils { // Compliant private StringUtils() { throw new IllegalStateException("Utility class"); } public static String concatenate(String s1, String s2) { return s1 + s2; } }
Exceptions
When class contains public static void main(String[] args)
method it is not considered as utility class and will be ignored by this
rule.
Identical blocks of code found in 2 locations. Consider refactoring. Open
} else if (x1 == x2) {
final int virtualStartY = y1 / totalDash * totalDash;
for (int y = virtualStartY; y < y2; y += totalDash) {
int topY = y + dashSize;
if (topY > y2) {
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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 120.
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
Identical blocks of code found in 2 locations. Consider refactoring. Open
if (y1 == y2) {
final int virtualStartX = x1 / totalDash * totalDash;
for (int x = virtualStartX; x < x2; x += totalDash) {
int topX = x + dashSize;
if (topX > x2) {
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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 120.
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