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Overly complex method

Reports methods that have too high a cyclomatic complexity.

Cyclomatic complexity is basically a measurement of the number of branching points in a method. Methods with too high a cyclomatic complexity may be confusing and difficult to test.

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.

GroovyOverlyComplexMethod
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 | Method metrics

Use the Method complexity limit field to specify the maximum acceptable cyclomatic complexity a method might have.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Overly complex method inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Method complexity limit

Default value:

10

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 GroovyOverlyComplexMethod

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