Hide Utility Class Constructor : Utility classes should not have a public or default constructor

Question

I am getting this warning on Sonar.I want solution to remove this warning on sonar. My class is like this :

public class FilePathHelper {
    private static Stri         


        

Answer 1

You can just use Lombok with access level PRIVATE in @NoArgsConstructor annotation to avoid unnecessary initialization.

@NoArgsConstructor(access = AccessLevel.PRIVATE)

public class FilePathHelper {

// your code

}

Answer 2

If this class is only a utility class, you should make the class final and define a private constructor:

public final class FilePathHelper {

   private FilePathHelper() {
      //not called
   }
}

This prevents the default parameter-less constructor from being used elsewhere in your code. Additionally, you can make the class final, so that it can't be extended in subclasses, which is a best practice for utility classes. Since you declared only a private constructor, other classes wouldn't be able to extend it anyway, but it is still a best practice to mark the class as final.

Answer 3

public class LmsEmpWfhUtils {    
    private LmsEmpWfhUtils() 
    { 
    // prevents access default paramater-less constructor
    }
}

This prevents the default parameter-less constructor from being used elsewhere in your code.

Answer 4

Best practice is to throw an error if the class is constructed.

Example:

/**
 * The Class FooUtilityService.
 */
final class FooUtilityService{

/**
* Instantiates a new FooUtilityService. Private to prevent instantiation
*/
private FooUtilityService() {

    // Throw an exception if this ever *is* called
    throw new AssertionError("Instantiating utility class.");
}