Hi Jason, and welcome to our community,
Raising possible NPE issues on all method calls not having an explicit null check would be super annoying and noisy. A lot of code in Java implicitly assume method parameters are not null.
SonarLint will only report an issue when it has good enough indication that the de-referenced variable can be null.
Try:
String someFunction(String value) {
if (value == null) {
return value.trim();
}
return value;
}
or (using JSR 305 annotations)
String someFunction(@Nullable String value) {
return value.trim();
}
You should then see issue reported.