== Why is this an issue?

Unnecessary imports refer to importing types that are not used or referenced anywhere in the code.

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=== Exceptions

Imports for types mentioned in KDoc are ignored.

== How to fix it

While it's not difficult to remove these unneeded lines manually, modern code editors support the removal of every unnecessary import with a single click from every file of the project.

=== Code examples

==== Noncompliant code example

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package myapp.helpers

import java.io.IOException
import java.nio.file.*
import java.nio.file.*     // Noncompliant - package is imported twice
import java.nio.*          // Noncompliant - nothing is used from that package

object FileHelper {
    fun readFirstLine(filePath: String)
        = Files.readAllLines(Paths.get(filePath)).first()
}
----

==== Compliant solution

[source,kotlin,diff-id=1,diff-type=compliant]
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package myapp.helpers

import java.io.IOException
import java.nio.file.*

object FileHelper {
    fun readFirstLine(filePath: String)
        = Files.readAllLines(Paths.get(filePath)).first()
}
----

== Resources
=== Documentation

* https://kotlinlang.org/docs/packages.html[Kotlin packages and imports]

=== Related rules

* S1144 - Unused "private" methods should be removed
* S1481 - Unused local variables should be removed

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=== Message

* Unnecessary imports should be removed.


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