05. Methods (MET)

Guidelines

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  MET00-J. Validate method arguments
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  MET01-J. Never use assertions to validate method arguments
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  MET02-J. Do not use deprecated or obsolete classes or methods
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  MET03-J. Methods that perform a security check must be declared private or final
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  MET04-J. Do not increase the accessibility of overridden or hidden methods
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  MET05-J. Ensure that constructors do not call overridable methods
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  MET06-J. Do not invoke overridable methods in clone()
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  MET07-J. Never declare a class method that hides a method declared in a superclass or superinterface
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  MET08-J. Preserve the equality contract when overriding the equals() method
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  MET09-J. Classes that define an equals() method must also define a hashCode() method
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  MET10-J. Follow the general contract when implementing the compareTo() method
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  MET11-J. Ensure that keys used in comparison operations are immutable
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  MET12-J. Do not use finalizers
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  MET13-J. Do not assume that reassigning method arguments modifies the calling environment
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  MET50-J. Avoid ambiguous or confusing uses of overloading
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  MET51-J. Do not use overloaded methods to differentiate between runtime types
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  MET52-J. Do not use the clone() method to copy untrusted method parameters
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  MET53-J. Ensure that the clone() method calls super.clone()
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  MET54-J. Always provide feedback about the resulting value of a method
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  MET55-J. Return an empty array or collection instead of a null value for methods that return an array or collection
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  MET56-J. Do not use Object.equals() to compare cryptographic keys
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  Rec. 06. Methods (MET)
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  Rule 06. Methods (MET)

Risk Assessment Summary

OBJ13-J. Do not expose sensitive private members of an outer class from within a nested class      The CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java      MET01-J. Avoid ambiguous uses of overloading