'continue' or 'break' inside 'finally' block

Reports break or continue statements inside of finally blocks.

While occasionally intended, such statements are very confusing, may mask thrown exceptions, and complicate debugging.

Example:

    while (true) {
        try {
          throwingMethod();
        } finally {
            continue;
        }
    }

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.

ContinueOrBreakFromFinallyBlock

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 | Java | Error handling

Inspection ID: ContinueOrBreakFromFinallyBlock

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 ContinueOrBreakFromFinallyBlock

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

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3, Qodana for JVM 2025.3,

Last modified: 03 December 2025