Utility class

Last modified: 03 December 2024

Reports utility classes.

Utility classes have all fields and methods declared as static and their presence may indicate a lack of object-oriented design.

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.

UtilityClass
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 | Class structure

Use the Ignore if annotated by option to specify special annotations. The inspection ignores classes annotated with one of these annotations.

Inspection options

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

Ignore if annotated by

Empty

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3, Qodana for JVM 2024.3,

Can be installed with plugin:

Java, 243.23126