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Class with too many constructors

Reports classes whose number of constructors exceeds the specified maximum.

Classes with too many constructors are prone to initialization errors, and often modeling such a class as multiple subclasses is preferable.

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.

ClassWithTooManyConstructors
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 | Java | Class metrics

Configure the inspection:

  • Use the Constructor count limit field to specify the maximum allowed number of constructors in a class.

  • Use the Ignore deprecated constructors option to avoid adding deprecated constructors to the total count.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Class with too many constructors inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Constructor count limit

Default value:

5
Ignore deprecated constructors

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:

//noinspection ClassWithTooManyConstructors

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

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025