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John Hewson edited comment on PDFBOX-2672 at 2/7/15 7:52 PM: ------------------------------------------------------------- Looking at the archived version of that page, it's not particularly readable and some of the conventions don't actually match what we use. I had a read through and I think we can reduce it more simply and include the rules which we actually follow. Here's a stating point: - Four spaces for indents, no tabs. - Braces go on their own line - Always use braces with control flow statements - No lines longer than 100 characters, including JavaDoc - Wrapped lines should be broken after operators, not before - Prefer aligned wrapped lines - Prefer aligned wrapped parameter lists - Public and protected methods and fields must have JavaDoc - Don't include @version tags or your e-mail address in JavaDoc - Private methods do not require JavaDoc but may have partial JavaDoc if it adds valuable information. - Only use line comments within code, never block comments - Prefer comments on their own line, rather than trailing, unless the latter is more readable - Do not use spaces around parenthesis - Use spaces after control flow keywords - Prefer using blank lines to separate logical blocks of code, but do not be excessive - Prefer not following casts with a blank space - Static fields and methods must appear at the top of a class, before any other code - Prefer multiple return statements over additional control flow logic - Prefer switch statements over multi-clause if-then statements - Prefer initializing variables when they are declared, rather than C-style declaration before use - Always use final fields when possible - Prefer final classes and final protected methods for non-final public classes, this reduces the surface area of the public API - Don't expose implementation details unless there is a clear need: allowing subclassing means that the behaviour of protected methods becomes part of the contract of the public API What do you think? was (Author: jahewson): Looking at the archived version of that page, it's not particularly readable and some of the conventions don't actually match what we use. I had a read through and I think we can reduce it more simply and include the rules which we actually follow. Here's a stating point: - Four spaces for indents, no tabs. - Braces go on their own line - Always use braces with control flow statements - No lines longer than 100 characters, including JavaDoc - Wrapped lines should be broken after operators, not before - Prefer aligned wrapped lines - Prefer aligned wrapped parameter lists - Public and protected methods and fields must have JavaDoc - Don't include @version tags or your e-mail address in JavaDoc - Private methods do not require JavaDoc but may have partial JavaDoc if it adds valuable information. - Only use line comments within code, never block comments - Prefer comments on their own line, rather than trailing, unless the latter is more readable - Do not use spaces around parenthesis - Use spaces after control flow keywords - Prefer using blank lines to separate logical blocks of code, but do not be excessive - Prefer not following casts with a blank space - Static fields and methods must appear at the top of a class, before any other code - Prefer multiple return statements over additional control flow logic - Prefer switch statements over multi-clause if-then statements - Prefer initializing variables when they are declared, rather than C-style declaration before use - Always use final fields when possible - Prefer final classes and final protected methods for public classes, this reduces the surface area of the public API - Don't expose implementation details unless their is a clear need: allowing subclassing means that the behaviour of protected methods becomes part of the contract of the public API What do you think? > Wrong code convention link on the website > ----------------------------------------- > > Key: PDFBOX-2672 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2672 > Project: PDFBox > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Documentation > Reporter: Andrea Vacondio > Priority: Trivial > > Currently the website page https://pdfbox.apache.org/codingconventions.html > points to the Sun's code convention -> http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv but > that page doesn't exist anymore. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org