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Check whether a type is **not** in use

Recipe IDorg.openrewrite.java.search.DoesNotUseType
Artifactorg.openrewrite:rewrite-java

Useful as a precondition to skip over compilation units using the argument type.

Single recipeApache 2.0

Usage

You’ll need the Moderne CLI configured before running the command below.

mod run . --recipe org.openrewrite.java.search.DoesNotUseType --recipe-option "fullyQualifiedTypeName=java.util.List"

If the recipe isn’t available locally, install it with:

mod config recipes jar install org.openrewrite:rewrite-java:8.88.0

Options

NameTypeDescription
fullyQualifiedTypeNamerequiredStringA fully-qualified type name, that is used to find matching type references. Supports glob expressions. java..* finds every type from every subpackage of the java package.
e.g. java.util.List
includeImplicitBooleanWhether to include implicit type references, such as those in method signatures.

Data tables

Structured output this recipe can produce.

  • Source files that had resultsSource files that were modified by the recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileResults
  • Source files that had search resultsSearch results that were found during the recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SearchResults
  • Source files that errored on a recipeThe details of all errors produced by a recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileErrors
  • Recipe performanceStatistics used in analyzing the performance of recipes.org.openrewrite.table.RecipeRunStats