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Class names should not shadow interfaces or superclasses

Description

While it's perfectly legal to give a class the same simple name as a class in another package that it extends or interface it implements, it's confusing and could cause problems in the future.

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Rename this class.

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Nicolas PeruOctober 21, 2014 at 12:08 PM

LGTM

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Critical

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Sonar way

Covered Languages

Java

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Constant/Issue

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Created October 20, 2014 at 5:30 PM
Updated March 22, 2021 at 4:47 PM