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Inner class too deeply nested

Reports classes whose number of nested inner classes exceeds the specified maximum.

Nesting inner classes inside other inner classes is confusing and indicates that a refactoring may be necessary.

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.

ClassNestingDepth
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 | Class metrics

Use the Nesting limit field to specify the maximum allowed nesting depth for a class.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Inner class too deeply nested inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Nesting limit

1

Availability

By default bundled with

IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1, Qodana for JVM 2024.1,

Can be installed with plugin

Java, 241.18072

Last modified: 18 June 2024