Comparison between a Wrapper class and and its corresponding primitive type can produce a NullPointerException

[Anicet_Didi]

Comparison between a Wrapper class and and its corresponding primitive type can produce a NullPointerException

// Noncompliant Code Example
Long wrapper = null;
long baseType = 100;

// Unboxing of ‘wrapper’ may produce ‘NullPointerException’
if (wrapper == baseType) {
…
}

// Compliant Code Example
Long wrapper = null;
long baseType = 100;

if (wrapper == Long.valueOf(baseType)) {
…
}
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[Michael (Michael Gumowski)]

Hey @Anicet_Didi ,

Thanks for the idea, and the good news is that we have a ticket for this: SONARJAVA-2126
It has been in our backlog for a long time, and we will see if we can address it some times in the future.

Cheers,
Michael