Class extends annotation interface
Reports classes declared as an implementation or extension of an annotation interface.
While it is legal to extend an annotation interface, it is often done by accident, and the result can't be used as an annotation.
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.
ClassExplicitlyAnnotation- 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.
This inspection depends on the Java feature 'Annotations', which is available since Java 5.
Inspection ID: ExtendsAnnotation
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:
More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:
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