UnnecessaryModifier mutator misses several opportunities to remove redundant modifiers

[mches]

To my knowledge, these cases are not covered

• interface or annotation (as a parent)
  • public, static, and final could be removed from a nested record
• class, enum, or record (as a parent)
  • static and abstract could be removed from a nested interface or annotation
  • static could be removed from a nested enum
  • static and final could be removed from a nested record
• final could be removed from a private method

[blacelle]

Many of these are covered in #848

static and final could be removed from a nested record

Done in #848. These are applied even if the record is not nested.

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static could be removed from a nested enum

It is already covered. (right?)

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static and abstract could be removed from a nested interface or annotation

I do not understand the case.

public enum Person {
	public static class SomeClass {
		
	}
}

does not compile.

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static and abstract could be removed from a nested interface or annotation

I'm adding:

public record SomeRecord() {
	public static abstract interface SomeClass {

	}

	public static abstract @interface SomeAnnotation {

	}
}

[mches]

I do not understand the case.

public enum Person {
	public static class SomeClass {
		
	}
}

does not compile.

Try

  public enum Person {
    ;

    public static class SomeClass {}
  }

[mches]

static could be removed from a nested enum

It is already covered. (right?)

I don't think it was covered for a parent other than interface or annotation

[mches]

I updated the description to cover class as a parent, in addition to enum and record.

Put another way

• static can be removed from an interface, annotation, enum, or record, regardless of parent
• abstract can be removed from an interface or annotation, regardless of parent
• final can be removed from a record, regardless of parent

[blacelle]

I don't think it was covered for a parent other than interface or annotation

I indeed reworked UnnecessaryModifier to handle various cases where the grandParentNode is irrelevant (e.g. an enum is always static).

static can be removed from an interface, annotation, enum, or record, regardless of parent

The reworked implementation indeed follows this wording.

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static can be removed from an interface, annotation, enum, or record, regardless of parent

Done

abstract can be removed from an interface or annotation, regardless of parent

Done

final can be removed from a record, regardless of parent

Done

[mches]

I had a chance to review. Looks both thorough and simplified. I expanded your new test case in PR #850, and identified one more opportunity to remove the redundant final keyword from private methods.