Is there a way to ignore a single FindBugs warning?

Question

With PMD, if you want to ignore a specific warning, you can use // NOPMD to have that line be ignored.

Is there something similar for FindBugs?

Answer 1

The FindBugs initial approach involves XML configuration files aka filters. This is really less convenient than the PMD solution but FindBugs works on bytecode, not on source code, so comments are obviously not an option. Example:

<Match>
   <Class name="com.mycompany.Foo" />
   <Method name="bar" />
   <Bug pattern="DLS_DEAD_STORE_OF_CLASS_LITERAL" />
</Match>

However, to solve this issue, FindBugs introduced later another solution based on annotations (see SuppressWarnings) that you can use at the class or at the method level (more convenient than XML in my opinion). Example (maybe not the best one but, well, it's just an example):

@edu.umd.cs.findbugs.annotations.SuppressWarnings(
    value="HE_EQUALS_USE_HASHCODE", 
    justification="I know what I'm doing")