From 901178db3174db1a386515a1e24c26f91fc16d61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrzej Jarmoniuk <gh@jarmoniuk.nl>
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 11:18:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Resolves #850: Protecting the display-plugin-updates mojo
 against a NPE in case the effective version of a plugin is not specified

---
 .../org/codehaus/mojo/versions/DisplayPluginUpdatesMojo.java | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/versions-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/codehaus/mojo/versions/DisplayPluginUpdatesMojo.java b/versions-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/codehaus/mojo/versions/DisplayPluginUpdatesMojo.java
index 15c6fccaed..9662357b8a 100644
--- a/versions-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/codehaus/mojo/versions/DisplayPluginUpdatesMojo.java
+++ b/versions-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/codehaus/mojo/versions/DisplayPluginUpdatesMojo.java
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Objects;
+import java.util.Optional;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.Stack;
 import java.util.TreeMap;
@@ -52,6 +53,8 @@
 import org.apache.maven.model.BuildBase;
 import org.apache.maven.model.Model;
 import org.apache.maven.model.Plugin;
+import org.apache.maven.model.PluginConfiguration;
+import org.apache.maven.model.PluginManagement;
 import org.apache.maven.model.Prerequisites;
 import org.apache.maven.model.Profile;
 import org.apache.maven.model.ReportPlugin;
@@ -620,7 +623,7 @@ private static String pad(String start, int len, String... ends) {
         buf.append(start);
         int padding = len;
         for (String end : ends) {
-            padding -= end.length();
+            padding -= String.valueOf(end).length();
         }
         buf.append(' ');
         while (buf.length() < padding) {