How to fix Checkstyle empty block warning

Question

I wanted to know the proper way of resolving this issue with a Checkstyle report where it points out an empty else block: "Must have at least one statement". We do not log anything in those classes and I think printing anything on console is also not a good idea. What would be the best way to handle this?

Answer 1

you can just add ; between that braces

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else if(condition){
    ;
}
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or as @Fred Larson said you can just insert a comment if you have any comment that why this section is empty

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else if(condition){
    //the reason why this section is empty
}
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