Question

I’ve made several attempts at getting package annotation @ParametersAreNonnullByDefault to work for me in a maven project but with no success.
Could someone share a link to a minimal/sample maven project where this is setup (or post the pom.xml and package-info.java and demo class)?

I’m talking about having findbugs processor enforce it for me.

Answer 1

How to apply @ParametersAreNonnullByDefault

Create a file package-info.java in your package where you want to enforce the desired behavior.

In that file, do the following:

/**
 * You should do it like this!
 */
@ParametersAreNonnullByDefault
package com.stackoverflow;

import javax.annotation.ParametersAreNonnullByDefault;

How not to apply @ParametersAreNonnullByDefault

Don’t do the following in a Java source file:

/**
 * But you shouldn't do it this way!
 */
@ParametersAreNonnullByDefault
package com.stackoverflow;

import javax.annotation.ParametersAreNonnullByDefault;

public class Answer { ...

Declaring annotations like this is ambiguous.

Notes

It would be OK to apply the annotation directly on Answer class.

package com.stackoverflow;

import javax.annotation.ParametersAreNonnullByDefault;

/**
 * You can do it like this also.
 */
@ParametersAreNonnullByDefault
public class Answer { ...

The exact same things apply to @ParametersAreNullableByDefault also.