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Remove unnecessary parentheses

Reports redundant empty parentheses in annotation entries.

Use the 'Remove unnecessary parentheses' quick-fix to clean up the code.

Examples:

annotation class MyAnnotationA annotation class MyAnnotationB(val x: Int) annotation class MyAnnotationC(val x: Int = 10) // default value is present @MyAnnotationA() // <== parentheses are redundant fun testA() { } @MyAnnotationB() // <== missing argument, parentheses are required fun testB() { } @MyAnnotationC() // <== parentheses are redundant fun testC() { }

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.

RemoveEmptyParenthesesFromAnnotationEntry
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 | Kotlin | Style issues

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 RemoveEmptyParenthesesFromAnnotationEntry

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 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025