Spring expression: NPE in org.springframework.expression.spel.ast.Ternary [SPR-5441]

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Oliver Becker opened SPR-5441 and commented

The evaluation in getValue of Ternary is not null-safe.
Boolean b may evaluate to null, so if (b) will auto-unbox the contained boolean, which throws a NullPointerException in this case.

The code in line 45 should be
if (b != null && b.booleanValue()) {
...

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Affects: 3.0 M1