Sealed class can be converted to sealed interface

Reports sealed classes that have no properties and can be converted to sealed interfaces.

Sealed interfaces are often preferred over sealed classes when the type hierarchy doesn't need to share state, as they allow implementing classes to extend other classes.

Example:

sealed class Result<out T : Any>
class Success<T : Any>(val result: T) : Result<T>()
class Error(val throwable: Throwable) : Result<Nothing>()

sealed interface Result<out T : Any>
class Success<T : Any>(val result: T) : Result<T>
class Error(val throwable: Throwable) : Result<Nothing>

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.

ConvertSealedClassToSealedInterface

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 | Kotlin | Style issues

Inspection ID: ConvertSealedClassToSealedInterface

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 ConvertSealedClassToSealedInterface

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

IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2, Qodana for JVM 2026.2,

Last modified: 30 June 2026