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Optional call chain can be simplified

Warning
Last modified: Last modified: 18 September 2025

Reports Optional call chains that can be simplified. Here are several examples of possible simplifications:

  • optional.map(x -> true).orElse(false) → optional.isPresent()

  • optional.map(x -> Optional.of(x.trim())).orElseGet(Optional::empty) → optional.map(String::trim)

  • optional.map(x -> (String)x).orElse(null) → (String) optional.orElse(null)

  • Optional.ofNullable(optional.orElse(null)) → optional

  • val = optional.orElse(null); val != null ? val : defaultExpr → optional.orElse(defaultExpr)

  • val = optional.orElse(null); if(val != null) expr(val) → optional.ifPresent(val -> expr(val))

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SimplifyOptionalCallChains
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Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Java | Verbose or redundant code constructs

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

New in 2017.2

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:

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Actual comment syntax will depend on the code language you are working with

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,