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Test case 57611

Deprecated test case

This version contains mistakes, making it deprecated. Deprecated test cases should not be used for new work. However, They remain in the SARD as a reference to redo previous work.

Description

CWE: 690 Unchecked return value is null, leading to a null pointer dereference.
BadSource: Use a custom method which may return null
GoodSource: Use a custom method that never returns null
Sinks: trim
GoodSink: Check data for null before calling trim()
BadSink : Call trim() on possibly null object
Flow Variant: 67 Data flow: data passed in a class from one method to another in different source files in the same package

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