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Invalid @ConfigurationProperties

Reports invalid prefixes defined in the @ConfigurationProperties annotations and incorrect property binding via constructor in Spring components.

The reported issues with prefixes include:

  • Missing prefix

  • Empty prefix

  • Prefix in notation other than the kebab-case

The property binding error is reported if a Spring component annotated with @ConfigurationProperties has parameters other than injected beans in the constructor. Constructor cannot be used for property binding in Spring components because it is used for bean injection in this case. Binding via setters should be used instead.

The inspection also reports classes that are annotated with @ConfigurationProperties and not registered via @EnableConfigurationProperties, marked as a Spring component, or scanned via @ConfigurationPropertiesScan.

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.

ConfigurationProperties
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 | Spring | Spring Boot

This inspection only triggers in classes annotated with @ConfigurationProperties that are not scanned via @ConfigurationPropertiesScan when the Spring Boot version for the project or module is set to 2.2.0 or later.

Inspection ID: ConfigurationProperties

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 ConfigurationProperties

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 2026.2, Qodana for JVM 2026.2,

Last modified: 15 July 2026