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Configuration avoidance

(Gradle 4.9+) Detects usage of API that interacts with tasks eagerly.

Eager interaction with tasks implies some inconveniences:

  • The user should manually set up all dependencies between tasks;

  • In the configuration phase, all the tasks accessed via the eager API become configured, even if they are not executed afterwards. It results in performance degradation.

Eventually, the eager API will be deprecated in favor of the lazy one.

For a migration guide, see the Gradle documentation.

Example:

task foo { // reports 'task', suggests replacing it with 'task.register' // ... }

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.

ConfigurationAvoidance
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 | Gradle | Best practises

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 ConfigurationAvoidance

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025