Deprecated API

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• Deprecated Methods

Deprecated Methods

Method and Description
com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.DefaultConfiguration.addAttribute(String, String) This shall be removed in future releases. Please use addProperty(String propertyName, String value) instead.
com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.DetailAST.branchContains(int) Usage of this method is no longer accepted. We encourage traversal of subtrees to be written per the needs of each check to avoid unintended side effects.
com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.Configuration.getAttribute(String) This shall be removed in future releases. Please use getProperty(String name) instead.
com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.Configuration.getAttributeNames() This shall be removed in future releases. Please use getPropertyNames() instead.
com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AbstractCheck.getFileContents() Usage of this method is no longer accepted. Please use AST based methods instead.
com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.DetailAST.getNumberOfChildren() This method will be removed in a future release. Use DetailAST.getChildCount() instead.