Is there a way to ignore a single FindBugs warning?

Question

With PMD, if you want to ignore a specific warning, you can use // NOPMD to have that line be ignored.

Is there something similar for FindBugs?

Answer 1

While other answers on here are valid, they're not a full recipe for solving this.

In the spirit of completeness:

You need to have the findbugs annotations in your pom file - they're only compile time, so you can use the provided scope:

  com.google.code.findbugs
  findbugs-annotations
  3.0.1
  provided

This allows the use of @SuppressFBWarnings there is another dependency which provides @SuppressWarnings. However, the above is clearer.

Then you add the annotation above your method:

E.g.

@SuppressFBWarnings(value = "RCN_REDUNDANT_NULLCHECK_WOULD_HAVE_BEEN_A_NPE",
        justification = "Scanning generated code of try-with-resources")
@Override
public String get() {
    try (InputStream resourceStream =  owningType.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(resourcePath);
         BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(resourceStream, UTF_8))) { ... }

This includes both the name of the bug and also a reason why you're disabling the scan for it.