[aerogear-dev] Android library: Are nulls icky

[Bruno Oliveira]

+1 on follow the same approach 


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On Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:

> returning a "null object", which does nothing would be an interesting approach..
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> That said, I think on iOS (for now) i stay with the current approach returning 'nil' - if a store,pipe,(auth)module could not be found. I guess JS does the same. 
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> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:03 PM, <supittma at redhat.com (mailto:supittma at redhat.com)> wrote:
> > I've added a gist with some pseudo code to describe what I am talking bout.
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> > https://gist.github.com/1efc515a68e3585817f4
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> > On 10/24/2012 02:12 PM, supittma at redhat.com (mailto:supittma at redhat.com) wrote:
> > > So I try to avoid nulls wherever possible.  In the case of the
> > > Authenticator (and Pipeline) API's we have methods get(String name).
> > >
> > > The obvious thing to do would be to return a null object if the name
> > > isn't a known name.
> > >
> > > Would it be better/preferable to return some kind of default
> > > AuthenticationModule (or Pipe) which does nothing instead?
> > >
> > > Alternatively we could supply a peek(name) method which tests for the
> > > name and throw an exception if you call get with a bad name.
> > >
> > > Just some idle thoughts.
> > >
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