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Redundant step in 'Stream' or 'Optional' call chain

Reports redundant Stream or Optional calls like map(x -> x), filter(x -> true) or redundant sorted() or distinct() calls.

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.

RedundantStreamOptionalCall
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 | Verbose or redundant code constructs

Note that a mapping operation in code like streamOfIntegers.map(Integer::valueOf) works as requireNonNull() check: if the stream contains null, it throws a NullPointerException, thus it's not absolutely redundant. Disable the Report redundant boxing in Stream.map() option if you do not want such cases to be reported.

This inspection depends on the Java feature 'Stream and Optional API', which is available since Java 8.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Redundant step in 'Stream' or 'Optional' call chain inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Report redundant boxing in Stream.map()

Default value:

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 RedundantStreamOptionalCall

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