Suspicious indentation after control statement without braces

Reports suspicious indentation of statements after a control statement without braces.

Such indentation can make it look like the statement is inside the control statement, when in fact it will be executed unconditionally after the control statement.

Example:

  class Bar {
      void foo(int i) {
          if (i == 0)
              System.out.println("foo");
              System.out.println("bar"); // warning
          if (i == 1);
              System.out.println("great"); // warning
          if (i == 42)
              System.out.println("answer");
                  System.out.println("question"); // warning
      }
  }

Locating this inspection

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Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

SuspiciousIndentAfterControlStatement

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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 | Probable bugs

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