Optionally expected annotation has no actual annotation

Reports optionally expected annotations without actual annotation in some platform modules.

Example:

// common code
@OptionalExpectation
expect annotation class JvmName(val name: String)

@JvmName(name = "JvmFoo")
fun foo() { }

// jvm code
actual annotation class JvmName(val name: String)

The inspection also reports cases when actual annotation class JvmName is omitted for non-JVM platforms (for example, Native).

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.

OptionalExpectation

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 | Kotlin | Style issues

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 OptionalExpectation

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

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025