Unnecessary autowired dependency in XML application context

Reports autowire attributes in <bean> elements and suggests to explicitly inject bean properties if possible.

Example:

  public class MyComponent {
    public void setOtherBean(OtherBean bean){...}
  }

  <beans>
    <bean class="beans.OtherBean" id="bar"/>
    <bean autowire="byType" class="beans.MyComponent"/>
    <!-- "Unnecessary autowired dependency" -->
    <!-- suggests "Make autowired dependency explicit" -->
  </beans>

After applying the quick-fix:

  <beans>
    <bean class="beans.OtherBean" id="bar"/>
    <bean class="beans.MyComponent" id="foo">
      <property name="otherBean" ref="otherBean"/>
    </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.

SpringXmlAutowireExplicitlyInspection

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 SpringXmlAutowireExplicitlyInspection

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