Safe Navigation call: argument expression evaluation

["Winnebeck, Jason" <Ja...@windstream.com>]

I noticed that safe navigation operator works with assignments and calls x?.value = 123.

But, it seems inconsistent whether or not the RHS side is evaluated. I tried a Groovy console where I called x?.setValue(method()) and method wasn't called, but in my actual app where I do x?.setValue(a.b.c) where a.b is null I get NPE. I found safe navigation operator documentation (http://groovy-lang.org/operators.html#_safe_navigation_operator), but it doesn't specify what happens to expressions in a method call. Is there any behavior I can rely upon? For now I workaround by doing an explicit x != null check, then x.setValue.

Jason Winnebeck

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