Overly long method

Reports methods whose number of statements exceeds the specified maximum.

Methods with too many statements may be confusing and are a good sign that refactoring is necessary.

The following statements are not counted:

empty statements (semicolons)
block statements
for loop initialization statements, that is, int i = ... within a for(int i = ...;...) statement
for loop update statements, that is, i += 2 within a for(int i = ...;...; i += 2) statement

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.

NonCommentSourceStatements

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 Maximum statements per method field to specify the maximum allowed number of statements in a method.

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

Last modified: 18 June 2024