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
forloop initialization statements, that is,int i = ...within afor(int i = ...;...)statementforloop update statements, that is,i += 2within afor(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.
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:
More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:
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