From ec6e6c75e972f4f13b93fed84323272a5d5f40af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gary Gregory <garydgregory@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 09:31:30 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Don't initialize an instance variable to its default value

---
 src/conf/checkstyle.xml                                         | 1 +
 .../java/org/apache/commons/codec/binary/BinaryCodecTest.java   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/conf/checkstyle.xml b/src/conf/checkstyle.xml
index 0245a7e138..79ac8b948d 100644
--- a/src/conf/checkstyle.xml
+++ b/src/conf/checkstyle.xml
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ limitations under the License.
   </module>
 
   <module name="TreeWalker">
+    <module name="ExplicitInitializationCheck" />
     <module name="OperatorWrap">
       <property name="option" value="eol" />
     </module>
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/codec/binary/BinaryCodecTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/codec/binary/BinaryCodecTest.java
index 1129cdc825..d0187cf1d8 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/codec/binary/BinaryCodecTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/codec/binary/BinaryCodecTest.java
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ public class BinaryCodecTest {
     private static final int BIT_7 = 0x80;
 
     /** An instance of the binary codec. */
-    BinaryCodec instance = null;
+    BinaryCodec instance;
 
     // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
     //