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Statement with empty body

Reports if, while, do, for, and switch statements with empty bodies.

While occasionally intended, such code is confusing and is often the result of a typo.

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.

EmptyStatementBody
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 | Probable bugs

This inspection is disabled in JSP files.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Statement with empty body inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Include statement bodies that are empty code blocks

Default: Selected

Comments count as content

Not selected

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