SONARJAVA-6931 ci-autofix: Investigate red master CI

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The latest CI run on master is red: SonarQube Code Analysis (run 102448842840).

This PR was opened with an empty commit to reserve a place for the CI fix.

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gitar master CI is failing https://next.sonarqube.com/sonarqube/dashboard?id=org.sonarsource.java%3Ajava&branch=master. Investigate the failure and fix it in this PR if possible. If not, leave a comment with your investigation results.

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SONARJAVA-6931

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Investigated the red master CI. The failing check is the SonarQube Code Analysis job, which failed the Quality Gate on two conditions: Reliability Rating (E) and 1 open issue.

The open issue is javabugs:S2259 (Fix this access that will throw a NullPointerException when executed) at java-checks-testkit/src/main/java/org/sonar/java/checks/verifier/internal/InternalCheckVerifier.java:407, in assertComponentIssue:

if (!expectedMessage.equals(issue.getMessage())) {

expectedMessage comes from expectations.expectedFileIssue()/expectedProjectIssue(), which default to null in Expectations. The caller only invokes this method when expectIssueAtFileLevel() || expectIssueAtProjectLevel() is true, so in practice expectedMessage is never null here — but the analyzer can't verify that invariant across methods, hence the reliability finding.

Fixed by using Objects.equals(expectedMessage, issue.getMessage()) instead, which removes the potential NPE without changing behavior.

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Code Review ✅ Approved 1 resolved / 1 findings

Adds null-check guard on an unreachable path in InternalCheckVerifier.assertComponentIssue to resolve the SonarQube code analysis failure on master. No issues found.

✅ 1 resolved

✅ Quality: NPE guard added on unreachable path; real nullable deref untouched

📄 java-checks-testkit/src/main/java/org/sonar/java/checks/verifier/internal/InternalCheckVerifier.java:407 📄 java-checks-testkit/src/main/java/org/sonar/java/checks/verifier/internal/InternalCheckVerifier.java:351 📄 java-checks-testkit/src/main/java/org/sonar/java/checks/verifier/internal/InternalCheckVerifier.java:384-393 📄 java-checks-testkit/src/main/java/org/sonar/java/checks/verifier/internal/InternalCheckVerifier.java:486-498
At line 407 expectedMessage cannot be null: assertComponentIssue is only invoked from checkIssues when expectIssueAtFileLevel() || expectIssueAtProjectLevel() (line 351), and both are StringUtils.isNotEmpty(...) checks (Expectations.java:271-284), so the branch assigning expectedMessage always yields a non-empty string. The change is therefore behaviour-neutral (and would make a hypothetical null-expected/null-actual pair silently pass verification), while the analogous, actually reachable dereference of the nullable AnalyzerMessage.getMessage() remains: validateAnalyzerMessageAttributes passes analyzerMessage.getMessage() (line 498) into assertAttributeMatch, which calls value.equals(...) unguarded (line 487) — a check reporting an issue with a null message NPEs there instead of producing an assertion failure. If the red-CI issue this PR targets is the nullable-message comparison, fixing only line 407 will not clear it.

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Quality Gate passed

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