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Henrik Christensen
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Henrik Christensen
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 38,322 Points
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Henrik Christensen
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 38,322 Points

IntelliJ IDEA

Hi,

I'm currently using IntelliJ IDEA for Java development and really love it, but I've noticed that it keeps telling me some methods and/or classes and be set to private instead of public even though they are used in other classes/files, and if I try set them to private then the program won't run.

Any idea why it's doing this?

1 Answer

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
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Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

For me this usually happens because the methods aren't called directly, but are used/auto-wired through annotations. Is that the case? You can disable the suggestion by right clicking the light bulb and choose to disable the inspection entirely or just for the annotation the method has.