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Usages of ApiStatus.@Obsolete

Reports declarations (classes, methods, fields) annotated as @ApiStatus.Obsolete.

Sometimes it's impossible to delete the current API, though it might not work correctly, there is a newer, or better, or more generic API. This way, it's a weaker variant of @Deprecated annotation. The annotated API is not supposed to be used in the new code, but it's permitted to postpone the migration of the existing code, therefore the usage is not considered a warning.

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.

UsagesOfObsoleteApi
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Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

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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 UsagesOfObsoleteApi

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

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025