#1075 False Positive: LocalVariableCouldBeFinal

[john]

the following code block triggers a false positive in Eclipse (not from maven) for LocalVariableCouldBeFinal. My guess is that it's not properly detecting a Java 5+ environment. I didn't see anywhere in the plugin to configure java5+ support like there is in the maven plugin.

 for (final Object user : Objects)

[Bo98]

Same here on Java 6

public void test(){
        final File[] files = dir.listFiles();
        if (files == null) {
            return;
        }
        for (final File f : files) {
            f.delete();
        }
}

This returns LocalVariableCouldBeFinal on the

for (final File f : files)

and a UR anomaly for variable f.

[Andreas Dangel]

I think this is because the eclipse plugin doesn't use the latest pmd version.
I hope to release a new pmd-eclipse-plugin soon (means in the next 2 weeks).

[Bo98]

Alright, good to hear.

[Andreas Dangel]

This is fixed now with the version:

PMD for Eclipse 4.0.0.v20130510-1000
It is available via the update site: http://pmd.sourceforge.net/eclipse/