From cccbf94e72fcdfadcaad5800acc8f871e4ef3246 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Henri Yandell <bayard@apache.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:34:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Changing the StringBuilder to build around an empty String
 and not null, as null will cause an NPE. Reported by FindBugs

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/lang/trunk@1006333 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/AnnotationUtils.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/AnnotationUtils.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/AnnotationUtils.java
index 9f0a9c92a..273ccae3b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/AnnotationUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/AnnotationUtils.java
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ public class AnnotationUtils {
                     break;
                 }
             }
-            return new StringBuilder(annotationType == null ? null : annotationType.getName())
+            return new StringBuilder(annotationType == null ? "" : annotationType.getName())
                     .insert(0, '@').toString();
         }