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                    +1 on follow the same approach
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                <div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>--&nbsp;</div><div>"The measure of a man is what he does with power" - Plato</div><div>-</div><div>@abstractj</div><div>-</div><div>Volenti Nihil Difficile</div></div></div>
                 
                <p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:</p>
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                    <span><div><div>returning a "null object", which does nothing would be an interesting approach..<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br><br><div>On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:03 PM,  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:supittma@redhat.com" target="_blank">supittma@redhat.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div>
I've added a gist with some pseudo code to describe what I am talking bout.<br>
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<a href="https://gist.github.com/1efc515a68e3585817f4" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/1efc515a68e3585817f4</a><br>
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On 10/24/2012 02:12 PM, <a href="mailto:supittma@redhat.com">supittma@redhat.com</a> wrote:<br>
&gt; So I try to avoid nulls wherever possible. &nbsp;In the case of the<br>
&gt; Authenticator (and Pipeline) API's we have methods get(String name).<br>
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&gt; The obvious thing to do would be to return a null object if the name<br>
&gt; isn't a known name.<br>
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&gt; Would it be better/preferable to return some kind of default<br>
&gt; AuthenticationModule (or Pipe) which does nothing instead?<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Alternatively we could supply a peek(name) method which tests for the<br>
&gt; name and throw an exception if you call get with a bad name.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Just some idle thoughts.<br>
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&gt; Summers<br>
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