'Objects.equals()' can be replaced with 'equals()'

Reports calls to Objects.equals(a, b) in which the first argument is statically known to be non-null.

Such a call can be safely replaced with a.equals(b) or a == b if both arguments are primitives.

Example:

  String defaultName = "default";
  boolean isDefault = Objects.equals(defaultName, name);

After the quick-fix is applied:

  String defaultName = "default";
  boolean isDefault = defaultName.equals(name);

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ObjectsEqualsCanBeSimplified

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This inspection depends on the Java feature 'java.util.Objects API', which is available since Java 7.

Inspection ID: ObjectsEqualsCanBeSimplified

New in 2018.3

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 ObjectsEqualsCanBeSimplified

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