Meaningless record annotation

Reports annotations used on record components that have no effect.

This can happen in two cases:

The reported annotation has the METHOD target, but the corresponding accessor is explicitly defined.
The reported annotation has the PARAMETER target, but the canonical constructor is explicitly defined.

Example:

@Target(ElementType.METHOD)
@interface A { }
  
// The annotation will not appear in bytecode at all,
// as it should be propagated to the accessor but accessor is explicitly defined 
record R(@A int x) {
  public int x() { return x; }
}

Locating this inspection

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MeaninglessRecordAnnotationInspection

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Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Java | Probable bugs

This inspection depends on the Java feature 'Records', which is available since Java 16.

New in 2021.1

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 MeaninglessRecordAnnotationInspection

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

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025