Class references one of its subclasses

Reports classes which contain references to one of their subclasses. Such references may be confusing and violate several rules of object-oriented design.

Example:

class Entity {
  // Warning: the class references its subclass
  void compare(SimpleEntity entity) {
    ...
  }
}
class SimpleEntity extends Entity {
  ...
}

Inspection Details
Available in:	IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3, Qodana for JVM 2023.3
Plugin:	Java, 233.SNAPSHOT

Last modified: 13 July 2023