Return value is outside of declared range

Reports numeric values returned from methods that don't conform to the declared method return range. You can declare method return range using a number of annotations:

org.jetbrains.annotations.Range from JetBrains annotations package (specify 'from' and 'to')
org.checkerframework.common.value.qual.IntRange from Checker Framework annotations package (specify 'from' and 'to')
org.checkerframework.checker.index.qual.GTENegativeOne from Checker Framework annotations package (range is '>= -1')
org.checkerframework.checker.index.qual.NonNegative from Checker Framework annotations package (range is '>= 0')
org.checkerframework.checker.index.qual.Positive from Checker Framework annotations package (range is '> 0')
javax.annotation.Nonnegative from JSR 305 annotations package (range is '>= 0')
javax.validation.constraints.Min (specify minimum value)
javax.validation.constraints.Max (specify maximum value)

Example:

  @Range(from = 0, to = Integer.MAX_VALUE) int getValue() {
    // Warning: -1 is outside of declared range
    return -1;
  }

Locating this inspection

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UnsatisfiedRange

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New in 2021.2

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 UnsatisfiedRange

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