Unsynchronized method overrides synchronized method

Reports non-synchronized methods overriding synchronized methods.

Example:

  abstract class Base {
      synchronized void foo() {
          // ...
      }
  }
  class Derived extends Base {
      @Override
      void foo() {
          super.foo()
            // ...
        }
    }

Here the non-synchronized method foo() in class Bar overrides synchronized method.

Locating this inspection

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GroovyUnsynchronizedMethodOverridesSynchronizedMethod

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Inspection ID: GroovyUnsynchronizedMethodOverridesSynchronizedMethod

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 GroovyUnsynchronizedMethodOverridesSynchronizedMethod

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