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Interface which has no concrete subclass

Reports interfaces that have no concrete subclasses.

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.

InterfaceNeverImplemented
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 | Inheritance issues

Configure the inspection:

  • Use the list below to add annotations. Interfaces declared with one of these annotations will be ignored by the inspection.

  • Use the checkbox below to ignore interfaces that only declare constant fields. Such interfaces may still be usable even without implementations.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Interface which has no concrete subclass inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Ignore if annotated by

Empty

Ignore interfaces which only declare constants

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