From 221131a33c5929288ad7283e59a3c27454110a97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mherbaghinyan <mbaghinyan@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 16:41:44 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] initialize an empty list

---
 .../src/main/java/com/baeldung/collection/CollectionsBean.java | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spring-core/src/main/java/com/baeldung/collection/CollectionsBean.java b/spring-core/src/main/java/com/baeldung/collection/CollectionsBean.java
index 425516703f..a0e985267f 100644
--- a/spring-core/src/main/java/com/baeldung/collection/CollectionsBean.java
+++ b/spring-core/src/main/java/com/baeldung/collection/CollectionsBean.java
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package com.baeldung.collection;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier;
 
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@ public class CollectionsBean {
 
     @Autowired(required = false)
     @Qualifier("CollectionsBean")
-    private List<BaeldungBean> beanList;
+    private List<BaeldungBean> beanList = new ArrayList<>();
 
     public CollectionsBean() {
     }