Pointless boolean expression
Reports unnecessary or overly complicated boolean expressions.
Such expressions include &&-ing with true, ||-ing with false, equality comparison with a boolean literal, or negation of a boolean literal. Such expressions can be simplified.
Example:
After the quick-fix is applied:
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.
PointlessBooleanExpression- 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.
Configure the inspection:
Use the Ignore named constants in determining pointless expressions option to ignore named constants when determining if an expression is pointless.
Inspection options
Here you can find the description of settings available for the Pointless boolean expression inspection, and the reference of their default values.
- Ignore named constants in determining pointless expressions
Default value:
Selected
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:
More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:
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