RFR: 7231: JMC createReport for JMC8 Automated Analysis fails to evaluate several rules

[Marcus Hirt]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:02:47 GMT, Henrik Dafgård <hdafgard at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This PR addresses the NullPointerException issue in core module for the following rules:
>> 
>> 1. GCs Caused by System.gc()
>> 2. GCs Caused by Heap Inspection
>> 3. GC Stall
>> 4. String Deduplication
>> 5. GCs Caused by GC Locker
>
> The ResultProvider should always be available for a IRule imlementation. If it isn't then that's a bug that we need to fix instead. I'd rather fix that at the source than adding null checks all over the code.

@Gunde - is there an issue open for this?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jmc/pull/302