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Declaration has problems in Javadoc references

Reports unresolved references inside Javadoc comments.

In the following example, the someParam parameter is missing, so it will be highlighted:

class A { /** * @param someParam description **/ void foo() { } }

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.

JavadocReference
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 | Java | Javadoc

Disable the Report inaccessible symbols option to ignore the tags that reference missing method parameters, classes, fields and methods.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Declaration has problems in Javadoc references inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Report inaccessible symbols<br>(javadoc tool may be unable to create hyperlink)

Default value:

Selected

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 JavadocReference

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