Having too many return statements in a method increases the method’s essential complexity because the flow of execution is broken each time a
return statement is encountered. This makes it harder to read and understand the logic of the method.
Noncompliant code example
With the default threshold of 3:
public boolean myMethod() { // Noncompliant; there are 4 return statements
if (condition1) {
return true;
} else {
if (condition2) {
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
