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Non-'static' initializer

Reports non-static initializers in classes.

Some coding standards prohibit instance initializers and recommend using constructors or field initializers for initialization. Also, deleting the static keyword may accidentally create non-static initializers and result in obscure bugs.

This inspection doesn't report instance initializers in anonymous classes.

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.

NonStaticInitializer
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 | Class structure

Use the Only warn when the class has one or more constructors option to ignore instance initializers in classes that don't have any constructors.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Non-'static' initializer inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Only warn when the class has one or more constructors

Default value:

Not selected

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection NonStaticInitializer

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025