Method call can be replaced with operator invocation

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

ChangeToOperator

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Groovy | Style

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Method call can be replaced with operator invocation inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Use double negation (i.e. !!)

Option ID:

useDoubleNegation

Default value:

Selected

Replace 'compareTo' equality to equals (i.e. ==)

Option ID:

shouldChangeCompareToEqualityToEquals

Default value:

Selected

Do not suggest replace with operator if it entails additional parentheses

Option ID:

withoutAdditionalParentheses

Default value:

Not selected

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

• IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3