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Make a codebase null-safe

Recipe IDio.moderne.nullability.NullSafety
Artifactio.moderne.recipe:rewrite-nullability

Make Java code null-safe end to end. Infers and adds JSpecify @Nullable/@MonotonicNonNull from the code's own signals (returns, parameters, fields, override hierarchies, Kotlin call sites, and the JSpecify generic frontier), then detects and repairs the residual nullability violations — dereferences, unboxing, switch, enhanced-for, passing a nullable argument, nullable returns, uninitialized non-null fields, and override consistency — directly from the LST. Behavior-preserving and idempotent; run to a fixpoint over recipe cycles. If the code still uses non-JSpecify annotation flavors, run org.openrewrite.java.jspecify.MigrateToJSpecify first.

Composite recipeProprietary

Usage

This recipe has no required configuration options. You’ll need the Moderne CLI configured before running the command below.

mod run . --recipe io.moderne.nullability.NullSafety

If the recipe isn’t available locally, install it with:

mod config recipes jar install io.moderne.recipe:rewrite-nullability:0.3.1

Options

NameTypeDescription
annotatedPackagesStringComma-separated package prefixes to limit the fix to (matching NullAway's AnnotatedPackages option). When unset, the recipe fixes all packages.
e.g. com.example
assertionStyleAssertionStyleThe non-null assertion form the residual Wrap* fixers emit at a last-resort site. AUTO (the default) inspects the classpath: Guava present (com.google.common) emits Preconditions.checkNotNull, otherwise Objects.requireNonNull. CAST_TO_NON_NULL is explicit-only (it is suppression-like — no runtime throw) and never auto-selected.

Definition

This recipe runs the following recipes in order.

Data tables

Structured output this recipe can produce.

  • Null-safety fixes by rungEach residual null-safety fix applied, tagged with the precedence rung that produced it, so the share bottoming out at a last-resort `requireNonNull` assertion can be tracked.io.moderne.nullability.table.NullFixes
  • Declined null-safety fixes needing reviewEach site the recipe declined to auto-fix because the fix is a design decision (the value is explicitly `null` on some path, so the slot likely should be `@Nullable`), for human triage.io.moderne.nullability.table.DeclinedNullFixes
  • Source files that had resultsSource files that were modified by the recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileResults
  • Source files that had search resultsSearch results that were found during the recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SearchResults
  • Source files that errored on a recipeThe details of all errors produced by a recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileErrors
  • Recipe performanceStatistics used in analyzing the performance of recipes.org.openrewrite.table.RecipeRunStats