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Overly nested method

Reports methods whose body contain too deeply nested statements.

Methods with too deep statement nesting may be confusing and are a good sign that refactoring may be necessary.

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.

NestingDepth
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 | Method metrics

Use the Nesting depth limit field to specify the maximum allowed nesting depth for a method.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Overly nested method inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Nesting depth limit

5

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