Just that it might cause an error later down that could possibly be hard to
track down, that is all. The application might fail at some later stage
long after this call was made.
/Dan
On 11 January 2013 17:07, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What is really wrong with returning 'null' ?
I'm used to this situation when using Hibernate for example, when the user
don't exist then it just return null and it's up to the developer (as Lucas
said) to handle this situation ...
Seb
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew(a)apache.org>wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > In the scope of
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AEROGEAR-803 , we have
> a
> > method to retrieve an user (based on its id). If the user don't exist it
> > returns null.
> >
> > There were some suggestions to change that into :
> > - throwing a runtime exception (seems a bit brutal)
>
> +1 on exception
>
> -M
>
>
> > - or returning an empty user (can be confusing)
> >
> > What is your opinion about this ?
> >
> > Seb
> >
> > ps: the method
https://gist.github.com/4510879
> >
> >
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