Suspicious getter/setter

Reports getter or setter methods that access a field that is not expected by its name. For example, when getY() returns the x field. Usually, it might be a copy-paste error.

Example:

class Point {
    private int x;
    private int y;

    public void setX(int x) { // Warning: setter 'setX()' assigns field 'y'
      this.y = x;
    }

    public int getY() { // Warning: getter 'getY()' returns field 'x'
      return x;
    }
  }

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.

SuspiciousGetterSetter

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 | Java | JavaBeans issues

Use the checkbox below to report situations when a field in the class has a name that matches a name of a getter or a setter.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Suspicious getter/setter inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Only warn when field matching getter/setter name is present: Default value:
Not selected

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 SuspiciousGetterSetter

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