Java short circuit evaluation

Question

I thought Java had short circuit evaluation, yet this line is still throwing a null pointer exception:

if( (perfectAgent != null) && (perfectAgent.ge         


        

Answer 1

Try formatting your code like this:

if( 
  (perfectAgent != null) 
  && (
      perfectAgent.getAddress()
      .equals(
       entry.getKey()
      )
     ) 
  ) {

It should give you a better stack trace line entry.