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'protected' visibility is effectively 'private' in a final class

Reports protected visibility used inside of a final class. In such cases protected members are accessible only in the class itself, so they are effectively private.

Example:

class FinalClass { protected fun foo() {} }

After the quick-fix is applied:

class FinalClass { private fun foo() {} }

Inspection Details

Available in:

IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3, Qodana for JVM 2023.3

Plugin:

Kotlin, @snapshot@

Last modified: 13 July 2023