going to:opening the JS console (in Chrome) and executing this script in the console, I don't see an error...I get 'undefined' - which 'close' to nil/null ;_______________________________________________On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Kris Borchers <kris@redhat.com> wrote:In JS, there is just an array on the Pipeline/Auth/DataManager object instance that the developer just accesses directly to retrieve the pipe/module/store by name or index. If they reference one that doesn't exist, an error is thrown.On Oct 25, 2012, at 12:52 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew@apache.org> wrote: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@redhat.com> 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@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
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