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Overly long method

Reports methods whose number of statements exceeds the specified maximum.

Methods with too many statements may be confusing and are a good sign that refactoring is necessary.

The following statements are not counted:

  • empty statements (semicolons)

  • block statements

  • for loop initialization statements, that is, int i = ... within a for(int i = ...;...) statement

  • for loop update statements, that is, i += 2 within a for(int i = ...;...; i += 2) statement

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.

OverlyLongMethod
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 | Java | Method metrics

Use the Maximum statements per method field to specify the maximum allowed number of statements in a method.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Overly long method inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Non-comment source statements limit

Default value:

30

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 OverlyLongMethod

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

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025