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Redundant 'isInstance()' or 'cast()' call

Reports redundant calls of java.lang.Class methods.

For example, Xyz.class.isInstance(object) can be replaced with object instanceof Xyz. The instanceof check is preferred: even though the performance will probably be the same as these methods are intrinsics, they better indicate a static check.

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RedundantClassCall
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Inspection ID: RedundantClassCall

New in 2018.2

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 RedundantClassCall

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 2025.3, Qodana for JVM 2025.3,

Last modified: 03 December 2025