is there any way for me to work around that?

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[xenoterracide]

is there any way for me to work around that?

[Kroppeb]

Are you sure? I feel like it should be Any! which would allow a null I think. Adding a @Nullable should solve the problem.

[xenoterracide]

sadly it’s not my method, so I can’t modify it

[streetsofboston]

You should be able to pass a null value to a platform type like Any!, without a @Nullable annotation

[xenoterracide]

Screen Shot 2019-09-25 at 12.55.45 PM.png

[streetsofboston]

It says the type is Any, not Any!. Are you sure this is a platform type, and you’re not hooking up to some kotlin extension …

[Kroppeb]

Huh, what does the doc says if you bring it up in the ide?

[xenoterracide]

> Task :compileTestKotlin FAILED
e: /Users/calebcushing/IdeaProjects/phs/src/test/kotlin/com/potreromed/monitor/PatientLookupTest.kt: (79, 58): Null can not be a value of a non-null type Any

[xenoterracide]

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[streetsofboston]

Does the Spring framework declare this method with a Nullable-annotation? If so, that would explain things

[xenoterracide]

not according to the attached sources it doesn’t

[Mike]

Spring has NotNull set as default at package/module level IIRC so they only have to identify those places where something is nullable. I think that explains yours scenario.

[xenoterracide]

ah

[xenoterracide]

maybe I should file a bug?

[Mike]

I don't think it's a bug. Is there a function to check if the body is null instead? That's the way I'd code it. Use Equal when you have/expect a body, and check null/empty explicitly in the other case.