Nested conditional expression

Last modified: 03 December 2024

Reports ternary conditional expressions that are nested inside other conditional expressions. Such nested conditionals may be very confusing. "Elvis" expressions are counted as conditionals for purpose of this inspection.

Example:

return (condition ? "result" : null) ?: "fail"

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Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

GroovyNestedConditional
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Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3, Qodana for JVM 2024.3,

Can be installed with plugin:

Groovy, 243.23126