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Remove redundant null checks before literal equals

Recipe IDorg.openrewrite.staticanalysis.RemoveRedundantNullCheckBeforeLiteralEquals
Artifactorg.openrewrite.recipe:rewrite-static-analysis

Removes redundant null checks before equals() comparisons when the receiver is a literal string, since literals can never be null and equals() returns false for null arguments.

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Usage

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

mod run . --recipe org.openrewrite.staticanalysis.RemoveRedundantNullCheckBeforeLiteralEquals

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

mod config recipes jar install org.openrewrite.recipe:rewrite-static-analysis:2.40.0

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  • 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