Checkstyle is slightly more useful: it'll now check for trailing
whitespace! [1] If your reviewee has an any issues with this, ask them to
run `./mach gradle checkstyle` locally rather than writing "nit:" on every
instance. :)

Slightly less useful: whitespace checks around Java generics operators also
landed with [1].
- Mike

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1258794

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Michael Comella <michael.l.come...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Important note regarding checkstyle in automation: to get the specific
> checkstyle failures, you have to click the failing test, click "Job
> Details", "Inspect task", and select the checkstyle artifact (e.g. [0]).
> Then you need to scroll through a large xml file to find your errors.
>
> Instead, if you see failures on try, I think it's easier to just run it
> locally (`./mach gradle checkstyle`) – the errors should print to stdout.
>
> For an example failure on treeherder, see [1].
> - Mike (:mcomella)
>
> [0]:
> https://public-artifacts.taskcluster.net/PtglwaB0SnywaZHZ-mH4aA/0/public/android/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml
> [1]:
> https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=e9ca2950d7f8&selectedJob=19049224
>
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Michael Comella <
> michael.l.come...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And now checkstyle is running in automation [1] – yay!
>>
>> It should run automatically when you change files that checkstyle looks
>> at (e.g. *.java).
>> - Mike (:mcomella)
>>
>> [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1258787
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Michael Comella <
>> michael.l.come...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> checkstyle appears to be sticking – happy style checking.
>>> - Mike (:mcomella)
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Michael Comella <
>>> michael.l.come...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I forgot to include some dependencies so this had to be backed out.
>>>> I'll reply once it's landed *and* merged this time. :P
>>>> - Mike
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Michael Comella <
>>>> michael.l.come...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey all.
>>>>>
>>>>> As you may have previewed from my static analysis email, I landed
>>>>> checkstyle in tree [1]. It catches various coding style issues. To run:
>>>>>
>>>>> ./mach gradle app:checkstyle
>>>>>
>>>>> My thinking here is that instead of typing `nit` for each style issue
>>>>> in review, we can just say `checkstyle` and ignore the remaining style
>>>>> issues. However, our current config [2] is minimal and won't help much:
>>>>> * Don't wrap `package .*` & `import .*` lines
>>>>> * Don't add tabs to files
>>>>> * Filename.java must contain a class Filename
>>>>>
>>>>> My highest priority checks to add are:
>>>>> * excess whitespace [3]
>>>>> * spacing around operators [4] (e.g. `1 + 1`)
>>>>>
>>>>> which I often find the need to nit for.
>>>>>
>>>>> For open issues, see the meta bug [5].
>>>>>
>>>>> Note: this probably won't be really effective until we land in
>>>>> automation [6] and prevent regressions.
>>>>> - Mike (:mcomella)
>>>>>
>>>>> [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1258769
>>>>> [2]: Once this merges to m-c:
>>>>> http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/app/checkstyle.xml
>>>>> [3]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1258794
>>>>> [4]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1258789
>>>>> [5]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1258786
>>>>> [6]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1258787
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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