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Redundant type conversion

Reports unnecessary type conversions. Type conversions are unnecessary when the argument type of a string(), number(), or boolean() function is already the same as the function's return type or if the expected expression type is any. Suggests removing the unnecessary conversion.

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.

RedundantTypeConversion
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 | XPath

Inspection ID: RedundantTypeConversion

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 RedundantTypeConversion

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

Last modified: 18 September 2025