We have a huge legacy code base, for which we are trying to fix all Sonar quality issues.
There is issue which says - Strings literals should be placed on the left side when checking for equality. And count of this issue is 12k+.
testFlag.equalsIgnoreCase("Y") - non-complaint
"Y".equalsIgnoreCase(testFlag) - complaint
I am trying to use Intelliji IDE Inspection utility to fix this using "Strutural Search Inspection". How ever, it did not work out.
I have kept search template as
$instanceVariable$(equalsIgnoreCase)\(\"$StringLiteral$
and replace template as
$StringLiteral$(equalsIgnoreCase)\(\"$instanceVariable$
But it does not work, is it right way to do/ any better options available in intelliji for this.
I am open to other IDEs like Eclipse. So if there is an option in any open source IDEs, i could try out.