Doubted it, checked it and it returned NullPointerException.

D:\>type Test.java
public class Test
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println(String.valueOf(null));
}
}

D:\>java Test
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
       at java.lang.String.<init>(Unknown Source)
       at java.lang.String.valueOf(Unknown Source)
       at Test.main(Test.java:6)

br Martijn

Matt Benson schreef:
I always thought String.valueOf(null) returned "null".
 Was I on crack?

-Matt

P.S.  Good to see you committing, Martijn...

--- j...@apache.org wrote:

Author: jkf
Date: Sat Jan 31 17:10:50 2009
New Revision: 739577

URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=739577&view=rev
Log:
Original toString would always throw a NPE.

Modified:
ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/property/NullReturn.java
Modified:

ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/property/NullReturn.java
URL:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/property/NullReturn.java?rev=739577&r1=739576&r2=739577&view=diff
==============================================================================
---

ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/property/NullReturn.java
(original)
+++

ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/property/NullReturn.java
Sat Jan 31 17:10:50 2009
@@ -33,6 +33,6 @@
      * {...@inheritdoc}
      */
     public String toString() {
-        return String.valueOf(null);
+        return "null";
     }
 }






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