Method can be made 'static'
Reports methods that can safely be made static. Making methods static when possible can reduce memory consumption and improve your code quality.
A method can be static if:
it is not
synchronized,nativeorabstract,does not reference any of non-static methods and non-static fields from the containing class,
is not an override and is not overridden in a subclass.
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.
MethodMayBeStatic- 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.
Use the following options to configure the inspection:
Whether to report only
privateandfinalmethods, which increases the performance of this inspection.Whether to ignore empty methods.
Whether to ignore default methods in interface when using Java 8 or higher.
Whether to let the quick-fix replace instance qualifiers with class references in calls to methods which are made
static, that is, callmyClass.m()would be replaced withMyClass.m().
Inspection options
Here you can find the description of settings available for the Method can be made 'static' inspection, and the reference of their default values.
- Only check 'private' or 'final' methods
Default value:
Not selected- Ignore empty methods
Default value:
Selected- Ignore 'default' methods
Default value:
Selected- Quick-fix replaces instance qualifiers with class 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:
More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:
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