Forward declaration without definition

Reports declarations of procedures and functions that are missing their implementation in code.

In Oracle, you can declare a procedure or a function without its body, and write the implementation later. The inspection will report names of such procedures or functions that are left without implementation.

Example (Oracle):

DECLARE PROCEDURE foo(a int, b varchar2);
BEGIN
    NULL;
END;

The foo procedure is declared but is missing implementation. We can add the implementation to get rid of the error.

DECLARE PROCEDURE foo(a int, b varchar2);
  PROCEDURE foo(a int, b varchar2) IS
BEGIN
    NULL;
END;
BEGIN
    NULL;
END;

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.

OraUnmatchedForwardDeclarationInspection

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 | Oracle

Availability

By default bundled with: CLion 2024.1, DataGrip 2024.1, DataSpell 2024.1, GoLand 2024.1, IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1, JetBrains Rider 2023.3, PhpStorm 2024.1, PyCharm 2024.1, Qodana for .NET 2023.3, Qodana for Go 2024.1, Qodana for JVM 2024.1, Qodana for PHP 2024.1, Qodana for Ruby 2024.1, RubyMine 2024.1,
Can be installed with plugin: Database Tools and SQL, 241.SNAPSHOT

Last modified: 18 June 2024