Accessor call that can be replaced with property access syntax

Reports Java get and set method calls that can be replaced with the Kotlin synthetic properties.

Use property access syntax quick-fix can be used to amend the code automatically.

Example:

  // Java:
  public class JavaClassWithGetter {
      private final String expr = "result";

      // ...

      public String getExpr() {
          return expr;
      }
  }

  // Kotlin:
  fun test(j: JavaClassWithGetter) {
      // ...
      j.getExpr() // <== The quick-fix simplifies the expression to 'j.expr'
  }

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.

UsePropertyAccessSyntax

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 | Style issues

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Accessor call that can be replaced with property access syntax inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Report non-trivial accessors: Default value:
Not selected
Excluded methods: Default value:
[java.net.Socket.getInputStream, java.net.Socket.getOutputStream, java.net.URLConnection.getInputStream, java.net.URLConnection.getOutputStream, java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger.getAndIncrement, java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger.getAndDecrement, java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger.getAcquire, java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger.getOpaque, java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger.getPlain, java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong.getAndIncrement, java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong.getAndDecrement, java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong.getAcquire, java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong.getOpaque, java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong.getPlain, java.nio.ByteBuffer.getChar, java.nio.ByteBuffer.getDouble, java.nio.ByteBuffer.getFloat, java.nio.ByteBuffer.getInt, java.nio.ByteBuffer.getLong, java.nio.ByteBuffer.getShort]

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 UsePropertyAccessSyntax

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