From 14462f9ea4c2bcb071963018e038386024c1f0e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Campbell <pcampbell@kemitix.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 17:45:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ParameterNumber: don't apply limit to overridden methods

---
 README.md                                     | 4 +---
 src/main/resources/net/kemitix/checkstyle.xml | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2359f5a..abd3e70 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1728,9 +1728,7 @@ Identifiers must match `^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$`.
 
 #### [ParameterNumber](http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_sizes.html#ParameterNumber)
 
-Restricts the number of parameters in a method or constructor to 7.
-
-> TODO: ignoreOverriddenMethods = true
+Restricts the number of parameters in a method or constructor to 7. Overridden methods are not checked as there may be no access to change the super method.
 
 #### [ParenPad](http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_whitespace.html#ParenPad)
 
diff --git a/src/main/resources/net/kemitix/checkstyle.xml b/src/main/resources/net/kemitix/checkstyle.xml
index 4291089..37cd8c6 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/net/kemitix/checkstyle.xml
+++ b/src/main/resources/net/kemitix/checkstyle.xml
@@ -169,7 +169,9 @@
             <property name="format" value="^[a-z]+(\.[a-z]+)*$"/> <!-- only lowercase letters, no numbers of underscores -->
         </module>
         <module name="ParameterName"/> <!-- validate parameter name format -->
-        <module name="ParameterNumber"/> <!-- limits the number of parameters to 7 -->
+        <module name="ParameterNumber"> <!-- limits the number of parameters to 7 -->
+            <property name="ignoreOverriddenMethods" value="true"/> <!-- don't apply to @Overridden -->
+        </module>
         <module name="ParenPad"/> <!-- parentheses should have no padding spaces -->
 
         <module name="RedundantImport"/> <!-- checks for redundant imports (i.e. in the same package) -->