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Unused assignment

Reports the cases where a variable is redundant as its value is never used after its assignment.

If the variable is unused, we recommend removing it to shorten the code and to avoid redundant allocations.

The following cases are reported:

  • the variable never gets read after assignment

  • the value is always overwritten with another assignment before the next variable read

  • the variable initializer is redundant (for one of the above two reasons)

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.

GroovyUnusedAssignment
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 | Data flow

For more info see the same inspection in Java.

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 GroovyUnusedAssignment

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