#1475 [java] MethodReturnsInternalArray: False positive

[Igor Melnichenko]

I have a class with the following field:

private static final byte[] DATA = {};

I directly return it from a method:

protected final byte[] getData()
{
    return DATA;
}

And it is marked as a violation of MethodReturnsInternalArray despite the fact this array is not modifiable.

[Andreas Dangel]

This will be fixed with PMD 5.3.7, 5.4.2 and 5.5.0.

Commit: https://github.com/pmd/pmd/commit/325fcaf5e46ce45349ecc5f27ef4cb9cbf7a50d9