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Cannot access content module dependency

Reports violations of content module visibility when declaring module dependencies.

Content modules can specify their visibility as private (default, when missing), internal, or public.

When declaring dependencies on other modules, the following rules must be followed:

  • Private modules can only be accessed within the same plugin.

  • Internal modules can only be accessed when declared within the same namespace (content@namespace).

  • Public modules can be accessed from anywhere.

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.

ContentModuleVisibility
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 | Plugin DevKit | Plugin descriptor

Inspection ID: ContentModuleVisibility

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 ContentModuleVisibility

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 2025.3, Qodana for JVM 2025.3,

Last modified: 03 December 2025