[GROOVY-4487] null.class inconsistent with null.getClass() [NullObject]

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8-beta-3
• Fix Version/s: 5.0.0-alpha-3
• Component/s: groovy-runtime
• Assignee: Eric Milles
• Reporter: Roshan Dawrani
• Created: 21/Oct/10 05:28
• Updated: 22/Dec/23 11:38
• Resolved: 17/Oct/23 22:20

Description

Following the mailing list thread at http://groovy.markmail.org/message/hn6xu7btb6rjtfdb?q=%22Groovy+and+nulls%22, it is to suggest that we have the same semantics for following 2 versions for consistency sake:

null.class

and

null.getClass()

Currently the property access throws NPE and method acces gives the NullObject class.