Bypass ObjectToObject conversion when source and object types are
identical and protect against a null source object.
Prior to this commit the TypeDescriptor was used to determine if
conversion was necessary. This caused issues when comparing a
descriptor with annotations to one without. The updated code
now compares using TypeDescriptor.getType().
The ObjectToObject converter will now no longer attempt to convert
null source objects.
Issue: SPR-9933
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