Suspicious 'var' property: its setter does not influence its getter result

Reports var properties with default setter and getter that do not reference backing field.

Such properties do not affect calling its setter; therefore, it will be clearer to change such property to val and delete the initializer.

Change to val and delete initializer quick-fix can be used to amend the code automatically.

Example:

  // This property always returns '1' and it doesn't important that the property is a 'var'
  var foo: Int = 0
      get() = 1

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.

SuspiciousVarProperty

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 | Kotlin | Probable bugs

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 SuspiciousVarProperty

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025