Static field referenced via subclass

Reports accesses to static fields where the call is qualified by a subclass of the declaring class, rather than by the declaring class itself.

Java allows such qualification, but such accesses may indicate a subtle confusion of inheritance and overriding.

Example:

class Parent {
  static int foo = 0;
}

class Child extends Parent { }

void bar() {
  System.out.println(Child.foo);
}

After the quick-fix is applied, the result looks like this:

class Parent {
  static int foo = 0;
}

class Child extends Parent { }

void bar() {
  System.out.println(Parent.foo);
}

Inspection Details
Available in:	IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3, Qodana for JVM 2023.3
Plugin:	Java, 233.SNAPSHOT

Last modified: 13 July 2023