From 6b104db2bbb3e90af6ac94ffe8cd78c0b08765bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chirag Dewan <chirag.dewan@ericsson.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 17:14:37 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] BAEL2489 Avoid check for null statement in Java - adding
 ofnullable to Optional example

---
 .../src/main/java/com/baeldung/nulls/UsingOptional.java     | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/patterns/design-patterns-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/nulls/UsingOptional.java b/patterns/design-patterns-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/nulls/UsingOptional.java
index 6c17290a72..d5dd56e760 100644
--- a/patterns/design-patterns-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/nulls/UsingOptional.java
+++ b/patterns/design-patterns-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/nulls/UsingOptional.java
@@ -8,11 +8,7 @@ public class UsingOptional {
 
         String response = doSomething(processed);
 
-        if (response == null) {
-            return Optional.empty();
-        }
-
-        return Optional.of(response);
+        return Optional.ofNullable(response);
     }
 
     private String doSomething(boolean processed) {