'Throwable' not thrown

Reports instantiations of Throwable or its subclasses, where the created Throwable is never actually thrown. Additionally, this inspection reports method calls that return instances of Throwable or its subclasses, when the result of the method call is not thrown.

Calls to methods annotated with the Error Prone's or AssertJ's @CanIgnoreReturnValue annotation will not be reported.

Example:

    void check(String s) {
        if (s == null) {
            new NullPointerException("s");
        }
        // ...
    }

Locating this inspection

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ThrowableNotThrown

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 | 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