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2024.3

Call to simple setter from within class

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Last modified: 03 December 2024

Reports calls to a simple property setter from within the property's class.

A simple property setter is defined as one which simply assigns the value of its parameter to a field, and does no other calculations. Such simple setter calls can be safely inlined. Some coding standards also suggest against the use of simple setters for code clarity reasons.

Example:

After the quick-fix is applied:

Use the following options to configure the inspection:

  • Whether to only report setter calls on this, not on objects of the same type passed in as a parameter.

  • Whether to ignore non-private setters.