RFR: 8374515: javafx.scene.PropertyHelper causes uncessary silent NullPointerException

[Kevin Rushforth]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 16:47:14 GMT, Christopher Schnick <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> That bug is already a new one. I don't have control over how newly opened bugs are handled in terms of state.

Ah, my mistake. I misread the state of that bug (and didn't actually look at it). I'll move it from "Incomplete" back to the "Open".

One thing you will need to do is to add a Description to this PR with a short evaluation of the bug. The PR body (i.e., the Description field) must not be empty.

This is obviously a bug in the (completely unnecessary) `PropertyHelper` class. Your solution of removing that obsolete class, and changing the one place it is used to directly call `Boolean.getBoolean` seems fine.

A single reviewer is sufficient.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/2023#issuecomment-3711349057