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 82.

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

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 82.

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

Rule: whitespace

Enforces whitespace style conventions.

Rationale

Helps maintain a readable, consistent style in your codebase.

Notes

• Has Fix

Config

Several arguments may be optionally provided:

• "check-branch" checks branching statements (if/else/for/while) are followed by whitespace.
• "check-decl"checks that variable declarations have whitespace around the equals token.
• "check-operator" checks for whitespace around operator tokens.
• "check-module" checks for whitespace in import & export statements.
• "check-separator" checks for whitespace after separator tokens (,/;).
• "check-rest-spread" checks that there is no whitespace after rest/spread operator (...).
• "check-type" checks for whitespace before a variable type specification.
• "check-typecast" checks for whitespace between a typecast and its target.
• "check-type-operator" checks for whitespace between type operators | and &.
• "check-preblock" checks for whitespace before the opening brace of a block.
• "check-postbrace" checks for whitespace after an opening brace.

Examples

"whitespace": true,check-branch,check-operator,check-typecast

Schema

{
  "type": "array",
  "items": {
    "type": "string",
    "enum": [
      "check-branch",
      "check-decl",
      "check-operator",
      "check-module",
      "check-separator",
      "check-rest-spread",
      "check-type",
      "check-typecast",
      "check-type-operator",
      "check-preblock",
      "check-postbrace"
    ]
  },
  "minLength": 0,
  "maxLength": 11
}

For more information see this page.