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Result of object allocation ignored

Reports object allocation where the result of the allocated object is ignored, for example, new Error(); as a statement, without any assignment. Such allocation expressions may indicate an odd object initialization strategy.

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.

ObjectAllocationIgnored
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 | JavaScript and TypeScript | Probable bugs

Inspection ID: ObjectAllocationIgnoredJS

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 ObjectAllocationIgnored

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

Last modified: 18 September 2025