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Mismatched query and update of collection

Warning
Last modified: 03 December 2024

Reports collections whose contents are either queried and not updated, or updated and not queried.

Such inconsistent queries and updates are pointless and may indicate either dead code or a typo.

Use the inspection settings to specify name patterns that correspond to update/query methods. Query methods that return an element are automatically detected, and only those that write data to an output parameter (for example, an OutputStream) need to be specified.

Example:

Suppose you have your custom FixedStack class with method store():

You can add store to the update methods table in order to report mismatched queries like: