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  1. JDK
  2. JDK-8250795

Add javac lint warning when a default constructor is created

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    • New warning.
    • add/remove/modify command line option
    • JDK

      Summary

      Add a new lint option, missing-explicit-ctor, to javac to warn about reliance on a default constructor in a class that is part of a formal API.

      Problem

      While convenient for informal classes, default constructors in formal API classes will not have javadoc and may be unintended and unwanted.

      Solution

      Warn about reliance on a default constructor on classes where there is some likelihood of it being a problem, name public classes in a named package that has an unqualified export from its module. In addition, for nested classes, all the syntactically enclosing classes must be public too.

      Specification

      New text displayed as a key for javac's -Xlint:

           missing-explicit-ctor Warn about missing explicit constructors in public classes in exported packages.

            darcy Joe Darcy
            darcy Joe Darcy
            Jonathan Gibbons
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