Pointless boolean expression
Reports unnecessary or overly complicated boolean expressions.
Such expressions include &&-ing with true, ||-ing with false, equality comparison with a boolean literal, or negation of a boolean literal. Such expressions can be simplified.
Example:
After the quick-fix is applied:
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.
PointlessBooleanExpression- 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.
Configure the inspection:
Use the Ignore named constants in determining pointless expressions option to ignore named constants when determining if an expression is pointless.
Inspection ID: PointlessBooleanExpression
Inspection options
Here you can find the description of settings available for the Pointless boolean expression inspection, and the reference of their default values.
- Ignore named constants in determining pointless expressions
Option ID:
m_ignoreExpressionsContainingConstantsDefault value:
Selected
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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