From 28225fed73c790de92b74001aa5fcd1255949cdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nidhi-vm <Nidhi.Vasani@ca.ey.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:31:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Updating using GitHub API 2025-06-19-15:31

---
 .../samples/petclinic/service/EntityUtils.java              | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/service/EntityUtils.java b/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/service/EntityUtils.java
index 7b7a5e64a..e0fd858f2 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/service/EntityUtils.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/springframework/samples/petclinic/service/EntityUtils.java
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ import java.util.Collection;
  */
 public abstract class EntityUtils {
 
+    private EntityUtils() {
+        // private constructor to prevent instantiation
+    }
+
 	/**
 	 * Look up the entity of the given class with the given id in the given collection.
 	 * @param entities the collection to search
@@ -50,4 +54,4 @@ public abstract class EntityUtils {
 		throw new ObjectRetrievalFailureException(entityClass, entityId);
 	}
 
-}
+}
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