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Detection of public and protected fields is trivial; heuristic detection of the presence or absence of accessor methods is straightforward. However, simply reporting all detected cases without suppressing those cases covered by the exceptions to this rule would produce excessive false positives. Sound detection and application of the exceptions to this rule is infeasible; however, heuristic techniques may be useful.
| Tool | Version | Checker | Description | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SonarQube Java Plugin |
| S2386 | Implemented for public static array, Collection, Date, and awt.Point members. |
Related Guidelines
CWE-766, Critical Variable Declared Public | |
Guideline 6-8 / MUTABLE-8: Define wrapper methods around modifiable internal state |
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