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Overly nested method

Reports methods whose bodies are too deeply nested.

Methods with too much statement nesting may be confusing, and are a good sign that refactoring may be necessary.

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.

GroovyOverlyNestedMethod
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 Maximum nesting depth field to specify the maximum acceptable nesting depth a method might have.

Inspection options

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

Maximum nesting depth

Default value:

5

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 GroovyOverlyNestedMethod

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