Spring Data repository method errors

Reports Spring Data CRUD repository methods for which the Spring Data Query builder cannot generate the corresponding query.

Example:

interface PersonRepository extends Repository<Person, Long> {
  List<Person> findByEmailAddressAndLastname(EmailAddress emailAddress, String lastname);
  List<Person> findByEmailUnknownAndLastname(EmailAddress emailAddress, String lastname); // Cannot resolve property 'Unknown'
  List<Person> findByAndLastname(EmailAddress emailAddress, String lastname); // Missing property name

  List<Person> findDistinctPeopleByLastnameOrFirstname(String lastname, String firstname);
  List<Person> findPeopleDistinctByUnknownOrFirstname(String lastname, String firstname); // Cannot resolve property 'Unknown'

  List<Person> findByLastnameOrderByFirstnameAsc(String lastname);
  List<Person> findByLastnameOrderByUnknownDesc(String lastname);  // Cannot resolve property 'Unknown'
}

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.

SpringDataMethodInconsistencyInspection

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 | Spring | Spring Data

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 SpringDataMethodInconsistencyInspection

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