Alternate names: Unused, unused, UnusedParameters
The presence of an unused method may indicate a bug. This check highlights private methods which are unused and can be safely removed without considering the impact on other source files.
Methods and fields which are used by reflection can be annotated with @Keep to
suppress the warning.
This annotation can also be applied to annotations, to suppress the warning for any member annotated with that annotation:
import com.google.errorprone.annotations.Keep;
@Keep
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@interface Field {}
...
public class Data {
@Field private int a; // no warning.
...
}
All false positives can be suppressed by annotating the method with
@SuppressWarnings("unused") or prefixing its name with unused.