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Non short-circuit boolean

Reports the non-short-circuit forms of boolean operators 'and' and 'or' (& and |).

The non-short-circuit versions are occasionally useful, but their presence is often due to typos of the short-circuit forms (&& and ||), and may lead to subtle bugs.

Example:

if (a & b) {}

After the quick-fix is applied:

if (a && b) {}

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.

GroovyNonShortCircuitBoolean
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 | Probable bugs

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 GroovyNonShortCircuitBoolean

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