Spring Data repository method parameters errors

Reports Spring Data CRUD repository method parameters with incorrect types.

Example:

  public class Person {
    private int id;
    private String lastname;
    private Address address;
  }

  public class Address {
    private int zipCode;
  }

  public interface CustomerRepository extends CrudRepository<Person, Integer> {
    List<Person> findByAddress(String lastname);  // 'Address' type expected
    List<Person> findByAddressZipCode(String str);   // 'int' type expected
  }

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.

SpringDataRepositoryMethodParametersInspection

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 SpringDataRepositoryMethodParametersInspection

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