Unnecessary 'return' statement

Reports return statements at the end of constructors and methods returning void. These statements are redundant and may be safely removed.

This inspection does not report in JSP files.

Example:

void message() {
  System.out.println("Hello World");
  return;
}

After the quick-fix is applied:

void message() {
  System.out.println("Hello World");
}

Use the Ignore in then branch of 'if' statement with 'else' branch option to ignore return statements in the then branch of if statements which also have an else branch.

Inspection options

Option	Type	Default
Ignore in then branch of 'if' statement with 'else' branch	Checkbox	false

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

Last modified: 13 July 2023