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Sonar showing issue for private fields of DTO class

I have this DTO class: 

class DTO{
    private String a;

    public DTO(String a){
        this.a = a;
    }
}

I am JSON serializing this class using Gson and sending it over to other application.

I don't need getters for this class. For this class sonar is showing following issue:

"Remove this unused "a" private field."

Should I ignore this sonar issue or there is another ideal way to change my code to eliminate this sonar error?

Solution

  • The issue raised by SonarQube is a false positive in this example. Your best course of action is to mark it as such on SonarQube.

    If your DTO files follow a consistent naming pattern, then it could also be interesting to configure SonarQube to ignore this issue in those files by default.