Abstract method called during object construction

Reports calls to abstract methods of the current class during object construction.

A method is called during object construction if it is inside a:

Constructor
Non-static instance initializer
Non-static field initializer
clone() method
readObject() method
readObjectNoData() method

Such calls may result in subtle bugs, as object initialization may happen before the method call.

Example:

  abstract class Parent {
    abstract void abstractMethod();
  }

  class Child extends Parent {
    Child() {
      abstractMethod();
    }
  }

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.

AbstractMethodCallInConstructor

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.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Java | Initialization

This inspection shares the functionality with the following inspections:

Overridable method called during object construction
Overridden method called during object construction

Only one inspection should be enabled at once to prevent warning duplication.

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 AbstractMethodCallInConstructor

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