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Method naming convention

Reports methods whose names are too short, too long, or do not follow the specified regular expression pattern.

A quick-fix to rename such methods is available only in the editor.

Instance methods that override library methods and constructors are ignored by this inspection.

Example:

public static int n() { return 0; }

This example will be reported if the inspection is enabled for static methods with the default settings where a method name should have a minimum length of 4.

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.

NewMethodNamingConvention
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 | Naming conventions | Method

Use the list in the Options section to specify the types of methods that should be checked.

For each method type, you can specify the minimum length, maximum length, and regular expression for acceptable method names. Specify 0 in a length field to skip the corresponding check. Regular expressions use the standard java.util.regex format.

Inspection ID: NewMethodNamingConvention

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Method naming convention inspection, and the reference of their default values.

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 NewMethodNamingConvention

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 2026.2, Qodana for JVM 2026.2,

Last modified: 30 June 2026