UnusedPrivateField

Detects when a private field is declared and/or assigned a value, but not used.

This rule is defined by the following Java class: net.sourceforge.pmd.rules.UnusedPrivateFieldRule

Example:

                

public class Something {
  private static int FOO = 2; // Unused
  private int i = 5; // Unused
  private int j = 6;
  public int addOne() {
    return j++;
  }
}