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Unknown '@GuardedBy' field

Reports @GuardedBy annotations in which the specified guarding field is unknown.

Example:

private Object state; @GuardedBy("lock") //unknown guard reference public void bar() { state = new Object(); }

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.

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Supported @GuardedBy annotations are:

  • net.jcip.annotations.GuardedBy

  • javax.annotation.concurrent.GuardedBy

  • org.apache.http.annotation.GuardedBy

  • com.android.annotations.concurrency.GuardedBy

  • androidx.annotation.GuardedBy

  • com.google.errorprone.annotations.concurrent.GuardedBy

Availability

By default bundled with

IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1, Qodana for JVM 2024.1,

Can be installed with plugin

Java, 241.18072

Last modified: 18 June 2024