Utility class without 'private' constructor
Reports utility classes without private constructors.
Utility classes have all fields and methods declared as static. Creating private constructors in utility classes prevents them from being accidentally instantiated.
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.
UtilityClassWithoutPrivateConstructor- 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.
Use the Ignore if annotated by option to specify special annotations. The inspection ignores classes marked with one of these annotations.
Use the Ignore classes with only a main method option to ignore classes with no methods other than the main one.
Inspection options
Here you can find the description of settings available for the Utility class without 'private' constructor inspection, and the reference of their default values.
- Ignore if annotated by
Default value:
Empty- Ignore classes with only a main method
Default value:
Not 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:
More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:
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