Well-named functions can allow the users of your code to understand at a glance what to expect from the function - even before reading the documentation. Toward that end, methods returning a boolean should have names that start with "is" or "has" rather than with "get".
public boolean getFoo() { // Noncompliant // ... } public boolean getBar(Bar c) { // Noncompliant // ... } public boolean testForBar(Bar c) { // Compliant - The method does not start by 'get'. // ... }
public boolean isFoo() { // ... } public boolean hasBar(Bar c) { // ... } public boolean testForBar(Bar c) { // ... }
Overriding methods are excluded.
@Override public boolean getFoo(){ // ... }