Hi Alex.

PR looks fine.

Thanks,
Gilles


Le mer. 22 mai 2019 à 17:09, Alex Herbert <alex.d.herb...@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> I'm trying to get pmd:check to be useful.
>
> This means fixing all the PMD violations. To fix some would be a
> refactor of reference algorithms which I do not want to start doing. So
> I've opted for the easier fix of increasing the allowed complexity.
>
> Some PMD cheks I had to disable were:
>
> - AccessorMethodGeneration
>
> This allows internal private classes to access private methods of the
> outer class and vice versa. It could instead be fixed by changing to
> package-private methods where appropriate.
>
> - OnlyOneReturn
>
> There are many code examples of fast exit from methods with multiple
> return statements.
>
> - BeanMembersShouldSerialize
>
> I do not think we intend to have the classes as Serializable.
>
> - DataflowAnomalyAnalysis
>
> This rule is not very reliable [1]. It does not like a lot of the
> algorithms in the code that are established.
>
>
> For one violation in sampling it can either be suppressed, or fixed by
> promoting a private class constructor to package-private. I think that
> the promotion to a package private constructor is OK. It is for this class:
>
> LargeMeanPoissonSampler.LargeMeanPoissonSamplerState
>
> This class is used by the LargeMeanPoissonSamplerCache and is already
> package-private. So making the constructor package private seems reasonable.
>
>
> The options to suppress violations [2] are:
>
> 1. Use annotations
>
> 2. Use // NOPMD comment at the end of the offending line
>
> 3. Add suppression to the pmd configuration xml.
>
> So not wanting to litter the code with comments and annotations I have
> updated the PMD xml to exclude certain checks.
>
> There does not appear to be a separate PMD exclusions file in the manner
> of spotbugs. The exclusions performed at the configuration file use
> regular expressions so can be configured. But it requires XPath and the
> syntax for regular expressions doesn't work with examples I have tried.
> I have fixed it with explicit 'or' statements for matching multiple
> classes. I have not found out how to match a class and a method in the
> same expression. This could be used to narrow the scope of exclusions.
>
>
> All changes are in this PR [3]. Have a look and see if you don't agree
> with the changes required.
>
>
> Alex
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/873
>
> [2] https://pmd.github.io/latest/pmd_userdocs_suppressing_warnings.html
>
> [3] https://github.com/apache/commons-rng/pull/45
>
>
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