Travis Crawford created HCATALOG-486:
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Summary: HCatalog should use checkstyle to enforce coding style
Key: HCATALOG-486
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HCATALOG-486
Project: HCatalog
Issue Type: Story
Reporter: Travis Crawford
Assignee: Travis Crawford
Currently HCatalog uses a variety of coding styles, making it very challenging
to configure an editor for format code correctly, and making it harder to
read/maintain than necessary.
Checkstyle is an open-source tool for checking source code against a style
policy, which when integrated with the build allows one to enforce the policy.
Of course, there's a delicate balance between imposing a convention vs.
allowing developers to solve problems in their own way, and we need to be
cognizant of that balance.
I think we should integrate checkstyle with our build, initially with a set of
policies I think are pretty obvious: basically stuff like no unused imports,
and no ridiculously long files. Over time we can define new policies, and
cleanup the code to match, knowing that that particular issue won't sneak back
in.
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