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#214 Good practice for the use of equals()

Status: closed-rejected

Owner: William Pugh

Labels: new bug pattern (61) report on spotbugs (85)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2017-10-22

Created: 2010-07-08

Creator: Anonymous

Private: No

In the statement A.equals(B), if B is a constant/Java enum, it is recommended to use B.equals(A). This help to avoid NPE at runtime which Findbugs can't detect.

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Keith Lea - 2010-07-19

assigned_to: nobody --> wpugh

status: open --> open-accepted
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Keith Lea - 2010-07-19

Bill - see RFE3026970

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Andrey Loskutov - 2017-10-22

Labels: new bug pattern --> new bug pattern, report on spotbugs

Status: open-accepted --> closed-rejected
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