Language mismatch

Reports when the language of a reference does not match the expected language of the usage context.

Example:

  @Language("JavaScript")
  String JS_CODE = "var x;";

  @Language("XPath")
  String XPATH_CODE = JS_CODE; // warning here

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.

LanguageMismatch

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 | Language injection

Inspection ID: LanguageMismatch

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Language mismatch inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Report in implied language context

Option ID:

CHECK_NON_ANNOTATED_REFERENCES

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 LanguageMismatch

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3, Qodana for JVM 2025.3,

Last modified: 03 December 2025