Re: [aerogear-dev] Android library: Are nulls icky

returning a "null object", which does nothing would be an interesting approach.. 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. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:03 PM, <supittma(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: I've added a gist with some pseudo code to describe what I am talking bout. https://gist.github.com/1efc515a68e3585817f4 On 10/24/2012 02:12 PM, supittma(a)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. > > Summers > _______________________________________________ > aerogear-dev mailing list > aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev _______________________________________________ aerogear-dev mailing list aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev -- Matthias Wessendorf blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf _______________________________________________ aerogear-dev mailing list aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev