Method can be made 'static'

Reports methods which may safely be made static.

A method may be static if it is not synchronized, it does not reference any of its class' instance methods and instance fields, and it is not overridden in a subclass.

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.

GrMethodMayBeStatic

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 | Other

Inspection ID: GrMethodMayBeStatic

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Method can be made 'static' inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Ignore trait methods

Option ID:

myIgnoreTraitMethods

Default value:

Selected

Only check final or private methods

Option ID:

myOnlyPrivateOrFinal

Default value:

Not selected

Ignore empty methods

Option ID:

myIgnoreEmptyMethods

Default value:

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 GrMethodMayBeStatic

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

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3, Qodana for JVM 2025.3,

Last modified: 03 December 2025