Varargs method

Reports methods that accept an arbitrary number of parameters (also known as varargs methods).

Example:

  enum EnumConstants {
  A(null), B, C;

  EnumConstants(String... ss) {}
}

A quick-fix is available to replace a variable argument parameter with an equivalent array parameter. Relevant arguments in method calls are wrapped in an array initializer expression. After the quick-fix is applied:

  enum EnumConstants {
  A(null), B(new String[]{}), C(new String[]{});

  EnumConstants(String[] ss) {}
}

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VariableArgumentMethod

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Varargs method appeared in Java 5. This inspection can help to downgrade for backward compatibility with earlier Java versions.

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 VariableArgumentMethod

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