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Fixed a problem with dependency management filtering in the logged results#1298

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Fixed a problem with dependency management filtering in the logged results#1298
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DisplayDependencyManagement should only show updates for dependency management entries, if these are not present in dependencies: it uses dependenciesMatch to filter those. However, the function was not correct: it should treat no values in dependency management as "wildcards" and not try matching nulls against dependency values.

Fixed that. A minor issue.

Edit: Copilot review is not entirely correct. There were no problems with NPE with this bug, it's rather that the matching was incorrect. It should treat not defined fields in dependency management as wildcards rather than match nulls with dependencies.

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Pull Request Overview

This PR fixes a bug in dependency management filtering where null values in managed dependencies should act as wildcards when matching against actual dependencies, but were incorrectly being matched using .equals() which caused NullPointerExceptions.

Key Changes:

  • Fixed the dependenciesMatch method to treat null values in managed dependencies as wildcards rather than attempting to match them
  • Changed visibility from protected to package-private (static) for better encapsulation
  • Added comprehensive test coverage for the wildcard matching behavior

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Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated no comments.

File Description
DisplayDependencyUpdatesMojo.java Fixed null handling in dependenciesMatch to treat null managed dependency fields as wildcards and inverted the logic for scope/classifier matching
DisplayDependencyUpdatesMojoTest.java Added test coverage for wildcard matching behavior with null values in managed dependencies

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@andrzejj0 andrzejj0 merged commit 4edadbc into mojohaus:master Oct 27, 2025
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@andrzejj0 andrzejj0 deleted the dependency-management-filtering branch October 27, 2025 08:47
@github-actions github-actions Bot added this to the 2.19.2 milestone Oct 27, 2025
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