Report False Positive NullPointer

[Quentin (Quentin Jaquier)]

Hello @kfersch and welcome to the Sonar Community.

I invite you to have a look at this post, answering to a similar issue:

[False Positive]A "NullPointerException" could be thrown;

Hello @Bhuvana The analyzer assumes that two consecutive method calls do not necessarily return the same value. It means that a null check on the first call to getBody() is not enough to avoid a NPE. You should extract the method call into a variable to not have an issue. In a way, this is a limitation of the analyzer, it is not able to detect if a method always returns the same value or not, so it reports an issue anyway, taking the risk to report false positives. If you are confident your c…

I hope it clarifies the situation.

Best,
Quentin