[Codenarc-user] [ANN] Announcing CodeNarc 0.21

[Chris M. <cm...@gm...>]

The *CodeNarc Team *is proud to announce the release of version *0.21*.

CodeNarc <http://codenarc.sourceforge.net/> is a static analysis tool for
Groovy source code. Version *0.21* adds 15 new rules (bringing the total to
337 rules) and a bunch of bug fixes and enhancements. Check us out on
GitHub<https://github.com/CodeNarc/CodeNarc>
!

*New Rules*


   -  #30: *GrailsMassAssignment* rule (grails) - Checks for mass
   assignment from a params Map within Grails domain classes. (Thanks to Brian
   Soby)
   - #38: *NoWildcardImports *rule (imports) - Wildcard imports, static or
   otherwise, should not be used. (Thanks to Kyle Boon)
   - #41: *ConsecutiveBlankLines *rule (formatting) - Makes sure there are
   no consecutive lines that are either blank or whitespace only. (Thanks to
   Joe Sondow)
   - #42: *BlankLineBeforePackage *rule (formatting) - Makes sure there are
   no blank lines before the package declaration of a source code file.
   (Thanks to Joe Sondow)
   - #43: *FileEndsWithoutNewline *rule (formatting) - Makes sure the
   source code file ends with a newline character. (Thanks to Joe Sondow)
   - #44: *MissingBlankLineAfterImports *rule (formatting) - Makes sure
   there is a blank line after the imports of a source code file. (Thanks to
   Joe Sondow)
   - #46: *MissingBlankLineAfterPackage *rule (formatting) - Makes sure
   there is a blank line after the package statement of a source code file.
   (Thanks to Joe Sondow)
   - #47: *TrailingWhitespaceRule (*formatting) - Checks that no lines of
   source code end with whitespace characters. (Thanks to Joe Sondow)
   - #411:* ExceptionExtendsThrowable *rule (exceptions) - Checks for
   classes that extend Throwable. Custom exception classes should subclass
   Exception or one of its descendants.
   - #341:* UnnecessaryCast *rule (unnecessary) - Checks for unnecessary
   cast operations.
   - #149:* IllegalSubclass *rule (generic) - Checks for classes that
   extend one of the specified set of illegal superclasses.
   - #157:* UnnecessaryToString *rule (unnecessary) - Checks for
   unnecessary calls to toString().
   - #152:* JUnitPublicProperty *rule (junit) - Checks for public
   properties defined on JUnit test classes.
   - #422:* ToStringReturnsNull *rule (design) - Checks for toString()
   methods that return null.
   - #143:* MultipleUnaryOperators *rule (basic) - Checks for multiple
   consecutive unary operators.


*Updated and Enhanced Rules*
#31: *UnusedImport*: Extended to now also detect cases where the imported
class name occurs as a substring in the source code. (Thanks to Rene
Scheibe)
#36: *UnnecessaryDefInMethodDeclaration*: Prevent false positives from
modifiers within quoted method name. (Thanks to Rene Scheibe)
#37: *LineLength*: Flags to ignore import and package statements line
length. (Thanks to Kyle Boon)
#35: *UnnecessaryPackageReference*: raises confusing violation for Script
with package.
#48: Fix Method chaining breaks *SpaceAfterComma*.
#49: Fix *SpaceBeforeOpeningBrace* doesn't work on switch statements.
#50: Fix *UnnecessaryDotClass *doesn't work if class is qualified
#153: Fix *ClosureStatementOnOpeningLineOfMultipleLineClosure* does not
catch multiline closure with only a single statement.
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