Inspectopedia Help

Loop with implicit termination condition

Reports any while, do-while, and for loops that have the true constant as their only condition. At the same time, such loops can be still terminated by a containing if statement which can break out of the loop.

Such an if statement must be the first or the only statement in a while or for loop and the last or the only statement in a do-while loop.

Removing the if statement and making its condition an explicit loop condition simplifies the loop.

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.

LoopWithImplicitTerminationCondition
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

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