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Overly complex anonymous class

Reports anonymous inner classes whose total complexity exceeds the specified maximum.

The total complexity of a class is the sum of cyclomatic complexities of all the methods and initializers the class declares. Inherited methods and initializers are not counted toward the total complexity.

Anonymous classes should have very low complexity otherwise they are hard to understand and should be promoted to become named inner classes.

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.

OverlyComplexAnonymousInnerClass
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 | Class metrics

Use the Cyclomatic complexity limit field to specify the maximum allowed complexity for a class.

Inspection ID: AnonymousClassComplexity

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Overly complex anonymous class inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Cyclomatic complexity limit

Option ID:

m_limit

Default value:

3

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 OverlyComplexAnonymousInnerClass

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 2025.3, Qodana for JVM 2025.3,

Last modified: 03 December 2025