Unqualified inner class access

Reports references to inner classes that are not qualified with the name of the enclosing class.

Example:

  import foo.Foo.Bar;

  class Foo {
    class Bar {}
  }

  class Baz {
    void f(Bar bar) {}
  }

After the quick-fix is applied:

  class Foo {
    class Bar {}
  }

  class Baz {
    void f(Foo.Bar bar) {}
  }

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.

UnqualifiedInnerClassAccess

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 | Code style issues

Use the inspection settings to ignore references to inner classes within the same class, which therefore do not require an import.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Unqualified inner class access inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Ignore references to local inner classes: Default value:
Selected

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 UnqualifiedInnerClassAccess

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