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CA011 - Too many arguments

Description

A feature that has too many arguments should be avoided since it makes the class interface complicated and is not easy to use. The feature arguments may include options, which should be considered to be moved to separate features.

Scope feature

Status Enabled

Severity Warning

Applicability All

Score 50

Arguments threashold 4

Example of violation

my_document.print (printer_name, paper_size, postscript_level, print_resolution)

Recommendation

Detect arguments that are really options and create procedures to set them.

In the example, one could write: my_document.set_paper_size (paper_size) my_document.set_postscript_level (postscript_level) my_document.set_print_resolution (print_resolution) my_document.print (printer_name)