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Prohibited exception declared

Reports methods that declare an inappropriate exception in their throws clause. For example an exception can be inappropriate because it is overly generic, such as java.lang.Exception or java.lang.Throwable.

Example:

void describeModule(String module) throws Exception {} // warning: Prohibited exception 'Exception' declared

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.

ProhibitedExceptionDeclared
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 | Error handling

Configure the inspection:

  • Use the Prohibited exceptions list to specify which exceptions should be reported.

  • Use the Ignore exceptions declared on methods overriding a library method option to ignore exceptions declared by methods that override a library method.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Prohibited exception declared inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Prohibited exceptions

Default value:

[java.lang.Throwable, java.lang.Exception, java.lang.Error, java.lang.RuntimeException, java.lang.NullPointerException, java.lang.ClassCastException, java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException]
Ignore exceptions declared on methods overriding a library method

Default value:

Not 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:

//noinspection ProhibitedExceptionDeclared

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 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025