Bean with non-default scope declares public fields

Reports managed beans with public instance fields that are not in the default @Dependent scope. According to the CDI specification, contextual scopes (@RequestScoped, @ApplicationScoped, @SessionScoped, and ConversationScoped) are not allowed for managed beans with public instance fields.

Example:

  @ApplicationScoped // Warning: Bean with non-default scope must not have public fields
  class Car {
    public String engine;
  }

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.

CdiNormalScopeInspection

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 | CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection)

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 CdiNormalScopeInspection

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