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Unused exported type

Reports unused exported types in the main package and in tests. For more information about exported identifiers, refer to Exported identifiers at go.dev.

type User struct {} func main() {}

The User struct type is declared but never used in the code. This type will be grayed out.

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.

GoUnusedExportedType
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

Inspection ID: GoUnusedExportedType

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 GoUnusedExportedType

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