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Asked: 2026-05-25T19:23:30+00:00

How can I suppress the following error with the @SuppressWarning annotation? The method Foo.trololo()

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How can I suppress the following error with the @SuppressWarning annotation?

The method Foo.trololo() does not override the inherited method from Bar since it is private to a different package

So far as I can tell the only way is to blanket the entire method with @SuppressWarning("all") which I would prefer not to do.

For clarification: The naming and scope of both methods is a deliberate choice and the two classes were deliberately put into different packages knowing the methods would not be visible to each other. I am merely looking to declare that I acknowledge what I am doing and would not like to be warned of it.

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  1. Editorial Team

    What it means (you probably know this already)

    It means that, even though your method has the same name as a (non-private) method in the super class, it doesn’t override that method.

    Regarding the warning message

    This is an Eclipse-specific warning. Nothing in the language spec says that it should produce this warning. It’s an "IDE-specific feature" if you so like. Therefore there is no "generic" way of suppressing the message.

    (Note for instance that javac does not produce this warning.)

    How to disable this warning (in Eclipse)

    (I know you are not looking for this, but some other visitor of this page may!)

    To disable this warning, you go to

           Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Compiler -> Errors / Warnings

    and set "Method does not override package visible method" to "Ignore".

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