jSparrow Documentation

Replace While-Loop with Enhanced For-Loop

Properties

Property Value
First seen in jSparrow version 1.0.0
Minimum Java version 5
Remediation cost 5 min

Description

Applying this rule replaces While-loops over iterators with an equivalent for-loop.

Benefits

Applying this rule leads to more simplicity in the code base by using new language constructs.

Requirement & Tags

Requirements

Java 5

Tags

Code Changes

Pre

public String testWhileToFor(String input) {
    List<String> l = generateList(input);
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    Iterator<String> iterator = l.iterator();
    while (iterator.hasNext()) {
        String s = iterator.next();
        sb.append(s);
    }
    return sb.toString();
}

Post

public String testWhileToFor(String input) {
    List<String> l = generateList(input);
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    for (String s : l) {
        sb.append(s);
    }
    return sb.toString();
}

Limitations

Loops where the body modifies the iterator in some way will not be transformed.

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