Identical 'catch' branches in 'try' statement

Reports identical catch sections in a single try statement.

Collapsing such sections into one multi-catch block reduces code duplication and prevents the situations when one catch section is updated, and another one is not.

Example:

    try {
        doSmth();
    }
    catch (IOException e) {
        LOG.error(e);
    }
    catch (URISyntaxException e) {
        LOG.error(e);
    }

A quick-fix is available to make the code more compact:

    try {
        doSmth();
    }
    catch (IOException | URISyntaxException e) {
        LOG.error(e);
    }

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.

TryWithIdenticalCatches

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.

This inspection depends on the Java feature 'Multi-catches', which is available since Java 7.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Identical 'catch' branches in 'try' statement inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Do not report catch blocks with different comments: Default value:
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 TryWithIdenticalCatches

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