Adopt Java 21+ pattern matching for switch and Math.clamp

[koppor]

Summary

🤖 This PR modernizes hand-rolled type-dispatch code to Java 21+ pattern matching for switch: eight same-selector instanceof/else-if chains become pattern switches with explicit case null arms that preserve the previous fall-through behavior — GroupNodeViewModel#canAddEntriesIn (completing the style of its four already-converted sibling methods), PreferencesFilter#getType, JabRefCliPreferences#getObject, MarkdownTextFlow#getMarkdownRepresentation, MathSciNet#getOthers, AllFieldsTab#normalizeInputHeights, and both OOStyle dispatches in OOBibBase. Two Math.max(0, Math.min(…)) constructs in WalkthroughScroller become Math.clamp (JDK 21). En passant, MarkdownTextFlow's bullet-list regex is now a precompiled Pattern (per CHECKLIST.md), and NUMBERED_LIST_PATTERN is dropped because its branch was byte-identical to the fallback.

Note on scope: JabRef currently builds with language level 25 (-PjavaVersion=26 exists only for EA testing, and Java 27 is not released), so this PR uses finalized Java 21–25 features only. The group-class hierarchy was checked so that switch arm order cannot reorder overlapping matches (e.g. ExplicitGroup extends WordKeywordGroup extends KeywordGroup); the compiler's dominance checking now guards these dispatches, which plain else-if chains never did.

Analogies

Like honey, pattern matching lets the type flow into the case label in one smooth motion instead of being scraped out of a cast in the branch body. Like chocolate, the switch arms are neatly segmented squares — you can see at a glance whether a piece (a subtype) is missing, which the compiler now checks for us. And like the moon pulling tides, the selector expression at the top governs every arm below it — one gravitational source instead of eight repeated instanceof tests.

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Steps to test

Pure refactoring — no user-visible behavior change intended. Verified by:

1. ./gradlew :jablib:test :jabgui:test for the touched classes (MarkdownTextFlowTest, GroupNodeViewModelTest, GroupNodeViewModelFilterTest) — green.
2. Manual smoke test in the running app: opened a library, selected an entry, used the group context menu "Add selected entries to this group" (whose enablement and action run through the converted canAddEntriesIn) — the entry was added and the group hit counter updated from 0 to 1.

Related issues and pull requests

None to close — code-quality refactoring.

AI usage

Claude Code (model claude-fable-5), AIL4 — the analysis, code changes, and this PR description are AI-generated end-to-end; review and ownership by the PR author is pending (hence WIP on jabref-koppor rather than upstream).

AI CHECKLIST.md walkthrough

1. Code self-review

Nullability and control flow

• No == null / != null checks added — nullability is handled via case null switch arms.
• No Objects.requireNonNull(...) added.
• [/] New classes annotated with @NullMarked — no new classes.
• [/] Optional consumption — the only touched Optional code (MathSciNet#getOthers) keeps its Optional.of/Optional.empty structure.
• [/] StringUtil.isBlank(...) — no blank checks touched.

Exceptions

• No catch (Exception e) added.
• No new RuntimeException; GroupNodeViewModel#canAddEntriesIn keeps its pre-existing UnsupportedOperationException default arm and gains the same IllegalArgumentException-on-null arm its four sibling methods already have.
• [/] Exception logging — not touched.

Style and idioms

• [/] BibEntry withers — not touched.
• Modern Java: pattern matching for switch (Java 21), unnamed pattern variables _ (Java 22), Math.clamp (Java 21) — all finalized at the project's language level 25.
• Regexes use precompiled Pattern — BULLET_LIST_PATTERN converted from a String used with String#matches.
• [/] Background work — not touched.
• No commented-out code or trivial comments added; the pre-existing NOTE/behavior comments were carried over verbatim.
• Markdown Javadoc — no JavaDoc inline tags introduced.

User-facing text

• [/] No user-facing text touched (no new localization keys, none removed).

Security

• [/] No HTML responses touched.

Tests

• [/] No behavior change intended; the touched org.jabref.logic methods (JabRefCliPreferences#getObject, MathSciNet#getOthers) keep their existing coverage (JabRefCliPreferencesTest, MathSciNetTest), and MarkdownTextFlowTest/GroupNodeViewModelTest/GroupNodeViewModelFilterTest pass unchanged — semantics preserved is exactly what they assert.
• [/] No new tests written.

2. Verification commands

• ./gradlew :jablib:compileJava :jabgui:compileJava and the test classes above — green.
• ./gradlew :jablib:checkstyleMain :jabgui:checkstyleMain — pass.
• ./gradlew modernizer — pass.
• ./gradlew rewriteRun produced no changes on top of this diff.
• [/] ./gradlew javadoc — no doc comments touched.
• [/] markdownlint — no Markdown changed.
• [/] Docker IntelliJ format — formatting applied via local idea format with .idea/codeStyles/Project.xml.

Checklist

• I own the copyright of the code submitted and I license it under the MIT license
• If AI tools were used, I disclosed them in the "AI usage" section and reviewed, understood, and take full ownership of all AI-generated code
• I manually tested my changes in running JabRef (always required)
• [/] I added JUnit tests for changes (if applicable)
• [/] I added screenshots in the PR description (if change is visible to the user)
• [/] I added a screenshot in the PR description showing a library with a single entry with me as author and as title the issue number
• [/] I described the change in CHANGELOG.md in a way that can be understood by the average user (if change is visible to the user)
• [/] I checked the user documentation for up to dateness and submitted a pull request to our user documentation repository

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