Simplifiable annotation

Reports annotations that can be simplified to their single-element or marker shorthand form.

Problems reported:

Redundant value= in annotation name-value pairs
Redundant braces around array values that contain only a single value
Redundant whitespace between the @-sign and the name of annotations
Redundant whitespace between annotation names and parameter lists
Redundant parentheses in annotations without any parameters

Example:

  @interface Foo { String[] value(); }

  @ Foo({"foo"})
  public String name;

After the quick-fix is applied:

  @interface Foo { String[] value(); }

  @Foo("foo")
  public String name;

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.

SimplifiableAnnotation

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 | Java | Code style issues

Inspection ID: SimplifiableAnnotation

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 SimplifiableAnnotation

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

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3, Qodana for JVM 2025.3,

Last modified: 03 December 2025