NullPointerException when class contains static final field with null value

[lindmik]

I just updated EqualsVerifier from version 1.5 to version 1.7.2, and it now fails on a class that has a constant field with null value. The verification fails with the following stack trace:

java.lang.AssertionError: java.lang.NullPointerException: 
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  at nl.jqno.equalsverifier.EqualsVerifier.handleError(EqualsVerifier.java:414)
  at nl.jqno.equalsverifier.EqualsVerifier.verify(EqualsVerifier.java:400)
  at ...
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
  at nl.jqno.equalsverifier.FieldsChecker$ReflexivityFieldCheck.checkValueReflexivity(FieldsChecker.java:306)
  at nl.jqno.equalsverifier.FieldsChecker$ReflexivityFieldCheck.execute(FieldsChecker.java:282)
  at nl.jqno.equalsverifier.FieldInspector.check(FieldInspector.java:37)
  at nl.jqno.equalsverifier.FieldsChecker.check(FieldsChecker.java:62)
  at nl.jqno.equalsverifier.EqualsVerifier.verifyWithExamples(EqualsVerifier.java:460)
  at nl.jqno.equalsverifier.EqualsVerifier.performVerification(EqualsVerifier.java:427)
  at nl.jqno.equalsverifier.EqualsVerifier.verify(EqualsVerifier.java:394)
  ... 24 more

[jqno]

Nice catch, thanks for reporting it. I'll fix it in the next version.

[jqno]

I've just released version 1.7.3, which fixes this.