Overridable method called during object construction

Reports calls to overridable methods of the current class during object construction.

A method is called during object construction if it is inside a:

Constructor
Non-static instance initializer
Non-static field initializer
clone() method
readObject() method
readObjectNoData() method

Methods are overridable if they are not declared as final, static, or private. Package-local methods are considered safe, even though they are overridable. Such calls may result in subtle bugs, as object initialization may happen before the method call.

Example:

class Parent {
void someMethod() { }
}

class Child extends Parent {
Child() {
someMethod();
}
}

This inspection shares the functionality with the following inspections:

Abstract method called during object construction
Overridden method called during object construction

Only one inspection should be enabled at once to prevent warning duplication.

Inspection Details
Available in:	IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3, Qodana for JVM 2023.3
Plugin:	Java, 233.SNAPSHOT

Last modified: 13 July 2023