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Field naming convention

Reports fields whose names are too short, too long, or do not follow the specified regular expression pattern.

Example: if the inspection is enabled for constants, and the minimum specified length for a field name is 5 (the default), the following constant produces a warning because the length of its name is 3, which is less than 5: public static final int MAX = 42;.

A quick-fix that renames such fields is available only in the editor.

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.

FieldNamingConvention
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 | Naming conventions

Configure the inspection:

Use the list in the Options section to specify which fields should be checked. Deselect the checkboxes for the fields for which you want to skip the check.

For each field type, specify the minimum length, maximum length, and the regular expression expected for field names using the provided input fields. Specify 0 in the length fields to skip the corresponding checks.

Regular expressions should be specified in the standard java.util.regex format.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Field naming convention inspection, and the reference of their default values.

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