## com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.duplicates
Class StrictDuplicateCodeCheck

    java.lang.Object
      com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean
          com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AbstractViolationReporter
              com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AbstractFileSetCheck
                  com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.duplicates.StrictDuplicateCodeCheck

All Implemented Interfaces:
  Configurable, Contextualizable, FileSetCheck

public final class StrictDuplicateCodeCheck
extends AbstractFileSetCheck

Checks for duplicate code.

There are many approaches for detecting duplicate code. Some involve parsing a file of a programming language and analyzing the source trees of all files. This is a very powerful approach for a specific programming language (such as Java), as it can potentially even detect duplicate code where linebreaks have been changed, variables have been renamed, etc.

This copy and paste detection implementation works differently. It cannot detect copy and paste code where the author deliberately tries to hide his copy+paste action. Instead it focusses on the standard corporate problem of reuse by copy and paste. Usually this leaves linebreaks and variable names intact. Since we do not need to analyse a parse tree our tool is not tied to a particular programming language.

Simian is a very good commercial duplicate code detection tool. It comes with a Checkstyle module, so we encourage all users to evaluate Simian as an alternative to this check.

Author:
  Lars Kühne

Constructor Summary
`StrictDuplicateCodeCheck()` Creates a new instance of this class.

Method Summary
`void` `process(java.io.File[] aFiles)` Processes a set of files and fires errors to the MessageDispatcher.
`void` `setBasedir(java.lang.String aBasedir)`
`void` `setMin(int aMin)` Sets the minimum number of lines that must be equivalent before the check complains.

Methods inherited from class com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AbstractFileSetCheck
`destroy, filter, fireErrors, getCharset, getMessageCollector, getMessageDispatcher, log, log, setCharset, setFileExtensions, setMessageDispatcher`

Methods inherited from class com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AbstractViolationReporter
`getMessageBundle, getSeverity, getSeverityLevel, log, log, log, log, log, log, log, log, log, setSeverity`

Methods inherited from class com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean
`configure, contextualize, finishLocalSetup, getConfiguration, setupChild`

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Methods inherited from interface com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.Configurable
`configure`

Methods inherited from interface com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.Contextualizable
`contextualize`

Constructor Detail

### StrictDuplicateCodeCheck

    public StrictDuplicateCodeCheck()

  Creates a new instance of this class.

Method Detail

### setMin

    public void setMin(int aMin)

  Sets the minimum number of lines that must be equivalent before the check complains.

  Parameters:
    `aMin` - the number of lines that must be equal before triggering a 'duplicate code' message.

### setBasedir

    public void setBasedir(java.lang.String aBasedir)

  Parameters:
    `aBasedir` - the base directory to strip off in filenames

### process

    public void process(java.io.File[] aFiles)

  Description copied from interface: `FileSetCheck`
  Processes a set of files and fires errors to the MessageDispatcher. The file set to process might contain files that are not interesting to the FileSetCheck. Such files should be ignored, no error message should be fired for them. For example a FileSetCheck that checks java files should ignore html or properties files. Once processiong is done, it is highly recommended to call for the destroy method to close and remove the listeners.

  Parameters:
    `aFiles` - the files to be audited.
  See Also:
    `FileSetCheck.process(java.io.File[])`

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