RS.CLIPPY.MISNAMED_GETTERS

Getter method returning the wrong field

This checker is a Clippy lint created by The Rust Project Contributors. The documentation shown here is a copy of the original documentation for: misnamed_getters. Copyright ©2025 The Rust Team. All rights reserved.

What it does

Checks for getter methods that return a field that doesn't correspond to the name of the method, when there is a field's whose name matches that of the method.

Why is this bad?

It is most likely that such a method is a bug caused by a typo or by copy-pasting.

Example

struct A {
    a: String,
    b: String,
}

impl A {
    fn a(&self) -> &str{
        &self.b
    }
}

Use instead:

struct A {
    a: String,
    b: String,
}

impl A {
    fn a(&self) -> &str{
        &self.a
    }
}