[MNG-8482] Use instanceof assignments to get rid of casting expressions

[jira-importer]

Nils Breunese opened MNG-8482 and commented

Java's instanceof can be used to get rid of casting expressions. The Maven code base contains a lot of snippets like this:

if (val instanceof Boolean) {
    return (Boolean) val;
}

By declaring an automatically cast variable this can be simplified:

if (val instance Boolean bool) {
    return bool;
}

I can create a merge request to apply this pattern wherever applicable to get rid of the casting expressions after instanceof checks.

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Affects: 4.0.0-rc-2

Remote Links:

• GitHub Pull Request #2018
  

Backported to: 4.0.0-rc-3