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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.

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

Option

Type

Default

Ignore if annotated by

StringList

[]

Ignore classes with only a main method

Checkbox

false

Inspection Details

Available in:

IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3, Qodana for JVM 2023.3

Plugin:

Java, 233.SNAPSHOT

Last modified: 13 July 2023