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Overly long method

Reports methods that are too long.

Methods that are too long may be confusing, and are a good sign that refactoring is necessary.

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.

GroovyOverlyLongMethod
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 | Groovy | Method metrics

Use the Maximum statements per method field to specify the maximum acceptable number of non-comment source statements a method might have.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Overly long method inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Maximum statements per method

30

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3, Qodana for JVM 2024.3,

Can be installed with plugin:

Groovy, 243.23126

Last modified: 03 December 2024