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A service can be converted to a light one

Reports classes that can be marked as light services using the @com.intellij.openapi.components.Service annotation instead of being registered as services in plugin.xml

A service that is not intended for overriding is not required to be registered in the plugin.xml file. Instead, annotate the service class with the @Service annotation. For project-level services, specify @Service(Service.Level.PROJECT).

Requirements:

  • IntelliJ Platform 2019.3 or newer.

  • Service class must be final.

  • serviceInterface is not specified.

  • If the application-level service is a com.intellij.openapi.components.PersistentStateComponent, roaming must be disabled (roamingType = RoamingType.DISABLED).

  • None of these attributes is specified: os, client, overrides, id, preload, configurationSchemaKey.

See Services in IntelliJ Platform Plugin SDK docs for more details.

See also the Plugin DevKit | Plugin descriptor | A service can be converted to a light one inspection.

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.

LightServiceMigrationCode
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

New in 2023.2

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2024.2, Qodana for JVM 2024.2,

Can be installed with plugin:

Plugin DevKit, 242.22892

Last modified: 11 September 2024