## com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.naming
Class MethodNameCheck

    java.lang.Object
      com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean
          com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AbstractViolationReporter
              com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.Check
                  com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.AbstractFormatCheck
                      com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.naming.AbstractNameCheck
                          com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.naming.MethodNameCheck

All Implemented Interfaces:
  Configurable, Contextualizable

    public class MethodNameCheck

extends AbstractNameCheck

Checks that method names conform to a format specified by the format property. The format is a `regular expression` and defaults to ^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$.

An example of how to configure the check is:

     <module name="MethodName"/>

An example of how to configure the check for names that begin with a lower case letter, followed by letters, digits, and underscores is:

     <module name="MethodName">
        <property name="format" value="^[a-z](_?[a-zA-Z0-9]+)*$"/>
     </module>

Version:
  1.0
Author:
  Oliver Burn

Constructor Summary
`MethodNameCheck()` Creates a new `MethodNameCheck` instance.

Method Summary
`int[]` `getDefaultTokens()` Returns the default token a check is interested in.

Methods inherited from class com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.naming.AbstractNameCheck
`mustCheckName, visitToken`

Methods inherited from class com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.AbstractFormatCheck
`getFormat, getRegexp, setCompileFlags, setFormat`

Methods inherited from class com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.Check
`beginTree, destroy, finishTree, getAcceptableTokens, getClassLoader, getFileContents, getLines, getRequiredTokens, getTabWidth, getTokenNames, init, leaveToken, log, log, setClassLoader, setFileContents, setMessages, setTabWidth, setTokens`

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

Constructor Detail

### MethodNameCheck

    public MethodNameCheck()

  Creates a new `MethodNameCheck` instance.

Method Detail

### getDefaultTokens

    public int[] getDefaultTokens()

  Returns the default token a check is interested in. Only used if the configuration for a check does not define the tokens.

  Specified by:
    `getDefaultTokens` in class `Check`
  Returns:
    the default tokens
  See Also:
    `TokenTypes`

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