Inspectopedia 2025.2 Help

Redundant type conversion

Reports type conversions that may be omitted.

Example:

var s = string("hello")

The "hello" value is the string type already, the additional conversion to string is redundant. To remove the conversion, consider using the Delete conversion quick-fix.

After the quick-fix is applied:

var s = "hello"

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.

GoRedundantConversion
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 | Go | Declaration redundancy

Sometimes conversion of a floating expression to a floating type can be intentional (refer to this issue as an example). In such cases, the IDE issues a warning about a possibly redundant conversion.

Inspection ID: GoRedundantConversion

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 GoRedundantConversion

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:

GoLand 2025.2, Qodana for Go 2025.2,

Can be installed with plugin:

Go, 252.26654.0

Last modified: 18 September 2025