Unresolved plugin configuration reference

Reports unresolved references to plugin configuration elements.

Referencing extension with an unknown id might result in errors at runtime.

The following extension points are supported:

com.intellij.advancedSetting in resource bundle advanced.setting.* key
com.intellij.experimentalFeature in Experiments.isFeatureEnabled()/setFeatureEnabled()
com.intellij.notificationGroup in Notification constructor and NotificationGroupManager.getNotificationGroup()
com.intellij.registryKey in Registry methods key parameter
com.intellij.toolWindow in resource bundle toolwindow.stripe.* key

Extension point name referencing its corresponding <extensionPoint> declaration in plugin.xml.

com.intellij.openapi.extensions.ExtensionPointName constructor and create()
com.intellij.openapi.extensions.ProjectExtensionPointName constructor
com.intellij.openapi.util.KeyedExtensionCollector and inheritors constructor

Referencing <action> or <group> id declared in plugin.xml.

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.

UnresolvedPluginConfigReference

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 | Plugin DevKit | Code

Inspection ID: UnresolvedPluginConfigReference

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 UnresolvedPluginConfigReference

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3, Qodana for JVM 2025.3,

Last modified: 03 December 2025