Property value set to itself

Last modified: 03 December 2024

Reports calls of setter methods with the same object getter as a value. Usually, this code does nothing and probably was not intended.

For example:

bean.setPayerId(bean.getPayerId());

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PropertyValueSetToItself
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By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3, Qodana for JVM 2024.3,

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Java, 243.23126