From 825105628fe6a47b1bfaa3cede35d4a323895975 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gary Gregory <garydgregory@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:01:52 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix NullPointerException in SimpleLog#write(Object) on null
 input

---
 src/changes/changes.xml                                      | 1 +
 src/main/java/org/apache/commons/logging/impl/SimpleLog.java | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index d40b25b..31c8fcc 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
       <!-- FIX -->
       <action dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Gary Gregory">Fix PMD UnnecessaryFullyQualifiedName in SimpleLog.</action>
       <action dev="ggregory" type="fix" issue="LOGGING-193" due-to="Philippe Marschall">Update Log4j 2 Imports #268.</action> 
+      <action dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Gary Gregory">Fix NullPointerException in SimpleLog#write(Object) on null input.</action>
       <!-- ADD -->
       <!-- UPDATE -->
       <action dev="ggregory" type="update" due-to="Dependabot">Bump org.apache.commons:commons-parent from 69 to 71 #267.</action>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/logging/impl/SimpleLog.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/logging/impl/SimpleLog.java
index 60044f7..97580fe 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/logging/impl/SimpleLog.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/logging/impl/SimpleLog.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import java.security.PrivilegedAction;
 import java.text.DateFormat;
 import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
 import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.Objects;
 import java.util.Properties;
 
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
@@ -640,7 +641,7 @@ public class SimpleLog implements Log, Serializable {
      *  text to be logged
      */
     private void write(final Object buffer) {
-        System.err.println(buffer.toString());
+        System.err.println(Objects.toString(buffer));
     }
 
     /**