Non-annotated Method overrides @Pattern Method

Reports when a method without any @Pattern annotation overrides a @Pattern annotated method. This does not prevent error-highlighting inside the editor, however the overriding method will not be checked at runtime.

A quick fix is provided to add a @Pattern annotation that matches the one from the superclass method. This ensures the runtime-check instrumentation works correctly.

Example:

  abstract class Parent {
    abstract @Pattern("\\d\\d-\\d\\d\\d") String getId();
  }
  class Child extends Parent {
    @Override String getId() { // warning here
      return "12-345";
    }
  }

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.

PatternOverriddenByNonAnnotatedMethod

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 | Pattern validation

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 PatternOverriddenByNonAnnotatedMethod

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