'record' contains ignored members

Reports serialization methods or fields defined in a record class. Serialization methods include writeObject(), readObject(), readObjectNoData(), writeExternal(), and readExternal() and the field serialPersistentFields. These members are not used for the serialization or deserialization of records and therefore unnecessary.

Examples:

  record R1() implements Serializable {
    // The field is ignored during record serialization
    @Serial
    private static final ObjectStreamField[] serialPersistentFields = new ObjectStreamField[0];

    // The method is ignored during record serialization
    @Serial
    private void writeObject(ObjectOutputStream out) throws IOException {
    }
  }

  record R2() implements Externalizable {
    // The method is ignored during record serialization
    @Override
    public void writeExternal(ObjectOutput out) throws IOException {
    }

    // The method is ignored during record serialization
    @Override
    public void readExternal(ObjectInput in) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
    }
  }

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SerializableRecordContainsIgnoredMembers

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This inspection depends on the Java feature 'Records', which is available since Java 16.

New in 2020.3

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 SerializableRecordContainsIgnoredMembers

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025