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Local variable is reassigned in closure or anonymous class

Reports local variables assigned to expression with different type inside of closure or anonymous class.

Example:

int sum = 0 [1, 2, 3].each { sum += 'as' } println(sum)

As a result, the integer variable sum is reassigned to a String expression.

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.

GrReassignedInClosureLocalVar
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 | Groovy | Potentially confusing code constructs

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 GrReassignedInClosureLocalVar

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 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025