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Problem

After the XMLDSig dependency upgrade, downstream NetLicensing-Core builds started
failing during ProGuard processing with the following error:

Warning: com.labs64.netlicensing.util.XMLDSigValidatorCustom: can't find referenced class com.helger.base.enforce.ValueEnforcer

XMLDSigValidatorCustom used ValueEnforcer only to perform a null check.
This introduced a direct bytecode reference to an implementation class provided transitively by ph-base.
Consumers that override or otherwise provide a different ph-xmldsig dependency set may not include the required ph-base version. ProGuard then treats the unresolved reference as an error and stops the build.
This currently affects the NetLicensing-Core agent build and its DB compatibility smoke checks.

Solution

Replace:

ValueEnforcer.notNull(aDoc, "Document");

with the standard Java equivalent:

Objects.requireNonNull(aDoc, "Document");

The validation behavior remains unchanged, while the unnecessary direct runtime reference to ph-base is removed.

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Dependency Review

✅ No vulnerabilities or license issues or OpenSSF Scorecard issues found.

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