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Interface may be annotated as '@FunctionalInterface'

Reports interfaces that can be annotated with @FunctionalInterface.

Annotating an interface with @FunctionalInterface indicates that the interface is functional and no more abstract methods can be added to it.

Example:

interface FileProcessor { void execute(File file); }

After the quick-fix is applied:

@FunctionalInterface interface FileProcessor { void execute(File file); }

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.

InterfaceMayBeAnnotatedFunctional
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 structure

This inspection depends on the Java feature 'Lambda expressions', which is available since Java 8.

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection InterfaceMayBeAnnotatedFunctional

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025