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Empty 'try' block

Reports empty try blocks, including try-with-resources statements.

try blocks with comments are considered empty.

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.

EmptyTryBlock
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

This inspection doesn't report empty try blocks found in JSP files.

Inspection ID: EmptyTryBlock

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 EmptyTryBlock

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