From db21443715ce5b709f07cc6c50c8438c6405929a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Brosius <dbrosius@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:37:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix invalid parameter check -- only problem could be that it
 is null, not, not instanceof Class

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/collections/trunk@1177393 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 .../commons/collections/functors/InstantiateTransformer.java | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/commons/collections/functors/InstantiateTransformer.java b/src/java/org/apache/commons/collections/functors/InstantiateTransformer.java
index ce1e5f22a..4f33f8491 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/commons/collections/functors/InstantiateTransformer.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/commons/collections/functors/InstantiateTransformer.java
@@ -105,10 +105,9 @@ public class InstantiateTransformer<T> implements Transformer<Class<? extends T>
      */
     public T transform(Class<? extends T> input) {
         try {
-            if (input instanceof Class == false) {
+            if (input == null) {
                 throw new FunctorException(
-                    "InstantiateTransformer: Input object was not an instanceof Class, it was a "
-                        + (input == null ? "null object" : input.getClass().getName()));
+                    "InstantiateTransformer: Input object was not an instanceof Class, it was a null object");
             }
             Constructor<? extends T> con = input.getConstructor(iParamTypes);
             return con.newInstance(iArgs);