[DBUTILS-149] Resolve bugs when upgrading to Spotbugs 4.7.3

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Nightly Builds
• Assignee: Carl Franklin Hall
• Reporter: Carl Franklin Hall
• Created: 10/Jan/23 03:38
• Updated: 14/Jan/23 20:05
• Resolved: 14/Jan/23 20:05

Description

Upgrading to Spotbugs 4.7.3 (from 4.2.3) breaks the build due to the introduction of new analysis rules. These issues need to be addressed away the master branch then Spotbugs version advanced to use commons.spotbugs.impl.version from commons-parent. At the time of writing, attempting this upgrade introduced 27 bugs.