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Method is identical to its super method

Reports methods that are identical to their super methods. Such methods have the same signature as their super method and either have an identical body or only their body consists only of a call to the super method. These methods are redundant and can be removed.

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.

RedundantMethodOverride
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 | Inheritance issues

Use the first checkbox below to run the inspection for the methods that override library methods. Checking library methods may slow down the inspection.

Use the second checkbox below to ignore methods that only delegate calls to their super methods.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Method is identical to its super method inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Check methods overriding library methods

Default: Selected

Ignore delegates to super methods

Default: Selected

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2024.2, Qodana for JVM 2024.2,

Can be installed with plugin:

Java, 242.22892

Last modified: 11 September 2024