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Unconditional 'wait' call

Reports wait() being called unconditionally within a synchronized context. Normally, wait() is used to block a thread until some condition is true. If wait() is called unconditionally, that often indicates that the condition was checked before a lock was acquired. In that case, a data race may occur, with the condition becoming true between the time it was checked and the time the lock was acquired. While constructs found by this inspection are not necessarily incorrect, they are certainly worth examining.

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.

GroovyUnconditionalWait
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 | Threading issues

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 GroovyUnconditionalWait

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