Method execute
has a Cognitive Complexity of 11 (exceeds 5 allowed). Consider refactoring. Confirmed
public ResultBuilder execute(String content, Message origin) {
String[] parts = content.split(" ");
String name = parts[0].toLowerCase();
String[] args = Arrays.copyOfRange(parts, 1, parts.length);
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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
Remove this unused private "hasModule" method. Open
private boolean hasModule(ButlerModule module) {
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- Exclude checks
private
methods that are never executed are dead code: unnecessary, inoperative code that should be removed. Cleaning out dead code
decreases the size of the maintained codebase, making it easier to understand the program and preventing bugs from being introduced.
Note that this rule does not take reflection into account, which means that issues will be raised on private
methods that are only
accessed using the reflection API.
Noncompliant Code Example
public class Foo implements Serializable { private Foo(){} //Compliant, private empty constructor intentionally used to prevent any direct instantiation of a class. public static void doSomething(){ Foo foo = new Foo(); ... } private void unusedPrivateMethod(){...} private void writeObject(ObjectOutputStream s){...} //Compliant, relates to the java serialization mechanism private void readObject(ObjectInputStream in){...} //Compliant, relates to the java serialization mechanism }
Compliant Solution
public class Foo implements Serializable { private Foo(){} //Compliant, private empty constructor intentionally used to prevent any direct instantiation of a class. public static void doSomething(){ Foo foo = new Foo(); ... } private void writeObject(ObjectOutputStream s){...} //Compliant, relates to the java serialization mechanism private void readObject(ObjectInputStream in){...} //Compliant, relates to the java serialization mechanism }
Exceptions
This rule doesn't raise any issue on annotated methods.