Structural search

How it works

$Instance$.$MethodCall$($Parameter$)

It lets you detect the System.out.println() Java statement. To make it detect the statements with hardcoded text like System.out.println("Hardcoded text!"), the template should take the modifiers described below:

Variable	Value	Explanation
$Instance$	[0,1]	Accepts zero or one value.
$MethodCall$	text=println	Searching for the println method.
$Parameter$	text=^\".*\"$	Any text enclosed in quote characters.

Using the Structural Search dialog of IntelliJ IDEA, create the template:
Convert the template to inspection as described on the Work with structural search and replace page of the IntelliJ IDEA documentation portal. For example, it can be saved as Hardcoded-print.
Use Settings | Editor | Inspections to enable the inspection in the Structural search group of inspections. For more details, see the Configure profiles page.
In the Inspections section of the Settings dialog, export the updated profile.
In the project root directory, create the qodana.yaml file and specify the path to the profile location in it:
```
profile:
path: path/to/the/profile/file
```

Inspect your code using Qodana:

$
docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 \
-v <project-directory>:/data/project/ \
-v <report-directory>:/data/results/ \
jetbrains/qodana-jvm --show-report

You can observe the problems detected by the structural search inspection under the Structural search category in the Qodana report.

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