java:S125 False Positive

[MarceloLaser]

• Operating system: Windows 10
• SonarLint plugin version: 7.4.0.60471
• Programming language you’re coding in: Java
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The following comment is accusing S125: Remove commented code:

// If neither of the conditions for (1.1) or (1.3) are met, this
// ... continued comment block, S125 is in above line only

This is very clearly not legal Java code under any circumstances (or any other language that I know of, for that matter), so this is a false positive.

[Margarita_Nedzelska]

Hello @MarceloLaser,

Thanks for the feedback. You’re right this is indeed a false-positive. It happens because detecting if some line is a code or not is a complicated task. So we rely on a heuristic, which sometimes leads to such kind of false-positives.

Here is a ticket to track the issue:

https://sonarsource.atlassian.net/browse/SONARJAVA-4428

We’ll think about what we can do with it.

Regards,
Margarita