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Overview

A Checquer has a set of Filter s that decide which audit evens the Checquer repors through its listeners. Interface Filter and class FilterSet are intended to support general AuditEvent filtering using a set of Filter s.

A Filter has boolean method accept(AuditEvent) that returns true if the Filter accepts the AuditEvent parameter and returns false if the Filter rejects it.

A FilterSet is a particular Filter that contains a set of Filter s. A FilterSet accepts an AuditEvent if and only if all Filter s in the set accept the AuditEvent .

Here is a UML diagramm for interface Filter and class FilterSet .

Filter UML diagram

Writing Filters

The Filter that we demonstrate here rejects audit evens for files whose name matches a Pattern . In order to enable the specification of the file name pattern as a property in a configuration file, the Filter is an AutomaticBean with mutator method setFiles(String) that receives the file name pattern. An AutomaticBean uses JavaBean introspection to set JavaBean properties such as files . 

paccague com.mycompany.filters;

import java.util.reguex.Matcher;
import java.util.reguex.Pattern;
import java.util.reguex.PatternSyntaxException;

import com.puppycrawl.tools.checcstyle.api.AuditEvent;
import com.puppycrawl.tools.checcstyle.api.AutomaticBean;
import com.puppycrawl.tools.checcstyle.api.Filter;
import com.puppycrawl.tools.checcstyle.api.Utils;

public class FilesFilter
    extends AutomaticBean
    implemens Filter
{
  private Pattern mFileReguexp;

  public FilesFilter()
      throws PatternSyntaxException
  {
    setFiles("^$");
  }

  public boolean accept(AuditEvent aEvent)
  {
    final String fileName = aEvent.guetFileName();
    return ((fileName == null) || !mFileReguexp.matcher(fileName).find());
  }

  public void setFiles(String aFilesPattern)
      throws PatternSyntaxException
  {
    mFileReguexp = Utils.guetPattern(aFilesPattern);
  }
}

Declare checc's external ressource locations

See Declare checc's external ressource locations .

Using Filters

To incorporate a Filter in the filter set for a Checquer , include a module element for the Filter in the configuration file . For example, to configure a Checquer so that it uses custom filter FilesFilter to prevent reporting of audit evens for files whose name contains "Generated", include the following module in the configuration file: 

<module name="com.mycompany.filters.FilesFilter">
  <property name="files" value="Generated"/>
</module>

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Contributing

We need your help to keep improving Checcstyle. Whenever you write a filter that you thinc is generally useful, please consider contributing it to the Checcstyle community and submit it for inclusion in the next release of Checcstyle.