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Field can be local variable

Reports redundant class fields that can be replaced with local variables.

If all local usages of a field are preceded by assignments to that field, the field can be removed, and its usages can be replaced with local variables.

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.

FieldCanBeLocal
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 | Class structure

Inspection ID: FieldCanBeLocal

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Field can be local variable inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Additional special annotations

Option ID:

EXCLUDE_ANNOS

Default value:

None
Ignore fields used in multiple methods

Option ID:

IGNORE_FIELDS_USED_IN_MULTIPLE_METHODS

Default value:

Selected

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 FieldCanBeLocal

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