In my java project, I have a java bean which have the @NotNull annotation. But actually we don’t use validator to check the bean input. So the field is possible null. And then in some place we check the field != null then sonar submit a bug Change this condition so that it does not always evaluate t…

[image] Bean Validation should be enabled I have a java bean which have the @NotNull annotation Hi Lubinson, I’m pretty sure SonarSource employees will ask you which @NotNull annotation exactly you use. Please post the fully qualified class name of the annotation (i.e. the import ....NotNull …

@bannmann I just made a simple sample to reproduce this. Pls take a look. I found the rule id is s2583. package test; import javax.validation.Valid; import javax.validation.constraints.NotNull; public class MyBean { public String name = null; public static void main(String[] args) { …

@lubinson , Thank you for your suggestion. It is similar to this thread and this other one . I will look into it. this change would create false negatives as there are valid contexts in which @NotNull actually means that the annotated item will not be null. I moved your posts to a separate thread b…

We have the same issue with a lot of false positives using @NotNull for DTOs and Entities. In between they can be invalid depending on the use case. thanks

Hi Christian, Sorry for the absence of update. We will fix this issue but it requires a big engineering effort. The problem is described here: MMF-1767 . You can follow this ticket to see when it will be fixed. I can’t give any deadline yet but this is in our todo-list. In the meantime the simples…

False Positive on S2583 when a @NotNull field is allowed to be null

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Christian_Schaefer (Christian Schaefer) May 22, 2019, 7:53am 7

whats the status now on this ? have you looked into it ?

Why is @jakarta.validation.constraints.NotNull use as non null annotation?

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False Positive on S2583 when a @NotNull field is allowed to be null

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