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Unguarded field access or method call

Reports accesses of fields declared as @GuardedBy that are not guarded by an appropriate synchronization structure.

Example:

@GuardedBy("this") void x() { notify(); } void y() { x(); // unguarded method call }

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.

FieldAccessNotGuarded
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 | Concurrency annotation issues

Supported @GuardedBy annotations are:

  • net.jcip.annotations.GuardedBy

  • javax.annotation.concurrent.GuardedBy

  • org.apache.http.annotation.GuardedBy

  • com.android.annotations.concurrency.GuardedBy

  • androidx.annotation.GuardedBy

  • com.google.errorprone.annotations.concurrent.GuardedBy

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2024.2, Qodana for JVM 2024.2,

Can be installed with plugin:

Java, 242.22892

Last modified: 11 September 2024
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