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Return null or something nullable from a lambda in transformation method

Reports transform operations that may return null inside a Reactive Stream chain.

Reactive Streams don't support nullable values, which causes such code to fail. The quick-fix suggests replacing map() with mapNotNull, which omits exceptions.

Example:

repository.findWithTailableCursorBy() .map(e -> (Person)null) .doOnNext(System.out::println)

After the quick-fix is applied:

repository.findWithTailableCursorBy() .mapNotNull(e -> (Person)null) .doOnNext(System.out::println)

Locating this inspection

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ReactiveStreamsNullableInLambdaInTransform
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Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Reactive Streams | Common

New in 2019.3

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection ReactiveStreamsNullableInLambdaInTransform

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

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IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025