Loop statement that does not loop

Reports any instance of for, while, and do statements whose bodies will be executed once at most. Normally, this is an indication of a bug.

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.

LoopStatementThatDoesntLoop

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 | Control flow issues

Use the Ignore enhanced for loops option to ignore the foreach loops. They are sometimes used to perform an action only on the first item of an iterable in a compact way.

Example:

  for (String s : stringIterable) {
    doSomethingOnFirstString(s);
    break;
  }

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Loop statement that does not loop inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Ignore enhanced for loops: Default: Selected

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