Redundant 'if' statement
Reports if statements that can be simplified to a single assignment, return, or assert statement.
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.
RedundantIfStatement- 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 chained 'if' statements option if you want to hide a warning for chained if statements.
For example, in the following code the warning will be hidden, but the quick-fix will still be available:
Note that replacing if (isTrue()) assert false; with assert isTrue(); may change the program semantics when asserts are disabled if condition has side effects. Use the Ignore 'if' statements with trivial 'assert' option if you want to hide a warning for if statements containing only assert statement in their bodies.
Inspection options
Here you can find the description of settings available for the Redundant 'if' statement inspection, and the reference of their default values.
- Ignore chained 'if' statements
Default value:
Not selected- Ignore 'if' statements with trivial 'assert'
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:
More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:
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