Regardless of you are new to IntelliJ inspections or you are a master wizard looking for hidden gems, this might be a good place to come to learn more about creating Structural Search and Replace templates.

On this page you can find the list of articles and tutorials that can help you learn about the different aspects of writing templates.

The list is continuously extended but if you are interested in something that you cannot find here, please create an issue in the intellij-inspections GitHub project.

Basics

Official Structural search and replace documentation

Filter types

• Text filter
• Type filter
• Reference filter
• Count filter
• Script filter
• Contained in constraint “filter”

Filter traits

• Context dependent filters

Project setup

How to add project specific inspections to your Git project

Tutorials

Frameworks, libraries

• General test automation framework
• AssertJ / Cucumber / Guava / Native Java / Lombok / Mockito / Selenium
• IntelliJ release notes

Template types

• Search templates
• Replace templates

Incomplete templates

Although these templates work, they signal some false positives that may be confusing. Thus they need a little bit more investigation.

• Incomplete templates

Topics

Search and replace template traits

• @Modifier template annotation
• Replacement variables in replace templates

Advanced Script filters

• Script filtering
• Using imports in script filters
• Iterate through methods of a superclass
• Method call chains
  • Generic type parameters in method calls

Java

• Annotations
  • Nested annotations and array attributes
  • Fields of class with the same annotation values
• Methods
  • Method parameters in method signatures
  • Static methods
• Statements with or without semicolon

XML based languages

• XML and HTML templates

Tools and plugins

• PSI Viewer built-in tool and plugin