[SPARK-7976] Add style checker to disallow overriding finalize

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: Project Infra
• Assignee: Reynold Xin
• Reporter: Reynold Xin
• Created: 31/May/15 04:37
• Updated: 02/Jun/15 00:31
• Resolved: 31/May/15 06:37

Description

finalize() is called when the object is garbage collected, and garbage collection is not guaranteed to happen. It is therefore unwise to rely on code in finalize() method.

See http://www.scalastyle.org/rules-0.7.0.html#org_scalastyle_scalariform_NoFinalizeChecker

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #6528 (rxin)