squid:S3655 (Optional value should only be accessed after calling isPresent()) being fired even though control will never reach the optional.get() call

[Quentin (Quentin Jaquier)]

SonarJava cannot detect Java 11 Optional isEmpty as null testing

Hi all, We are using SonarJava for Java code analysis. We are facing a problem that SonarJava cannot detect Java 11 isEmpty as valid null testing for Optional Class (The code sample is shown in below picture, violated rule: squid:S3655). We did try follow suggestion in rule to use ! isEmpty() but it doesn’t work. I can see there is a Jira log SONARJAVA-3087 which is discussing the same problem and this problem should be fixed in version 5.12.1. But, our version is newer than 5.12.1. Is there wa…

Since an other thread for a similar issue was created, I’m closing this one, please continue the discussion there if you still face issue.