Incorrectly referenced bean in @Scheduled annotation

Reports incorrect bean references in the scheduler parameter of the @Scheduled annotation.

Example:

  @Component public class UserController {...}
  @Component public class UserServiceAsyncTaskScheduler extends SimpleAsyncTaskScheduler {...}

  @Component public class UserService {
    @Scheduled(scheduler="userServiceAsyncTaskScheduler", cron="1 * * * * * ?")
    public void scheduleTask() {...}

    @Scheduled(scheduler="userController", cron="1 * * * * * ?") // reports "Bean must be one of these types: TaskScheduler,ScheduledExecutorService "
    public void scheduleTask_2() {...}

    @Scheduled(scheduler="unknown", cron="1 * * * * * ?")   // reports "Cannot resolve bean 'unknown'"
    public void scheduleTask_3() {...}
  }

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.

SpringScheduledMethodsInspection

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 SpringScheduledMethodsInspection

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