Conflicting Spring bean attribute

Reports configuration conflicts on <bean> attributes.

Example:

  <beans>
    <bean class="java.lang.String" factory-bean="factoryBean"/>
    <!-- Exactly one of 'class' or 'factory-bean' is required -->
    <bean factory-bean="factoryBean" id="missingFactoryMethod"/> <!-- When factory-bean exists, factory-method is required -->

    <!-- Attribute abstract with default value 'false' is superfluous -->
    <bean abstract="false" id="superfluousDefaultAttributeAbstract"/>

    <!-- Attribute scope with default value 'singleton' is superfluous -->
    <bean id="superfluousDefaultAttributeScope" scope="singleton"/>

    <bean class="java.lang.StringBuilder">
      <property name="length">
        <!-- Attributes id, name, and scope are superfluous -->
        <bean id="beanId" name="beanName" scope="prototype"/>
      </property>
    </bean>
  </beans>

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.

SpringBeanAttributesInspection

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.

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 SpringBeanAttributesInspection

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

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025