[aerogear-dev] Question about retrieving an AeroGearUser ?

[Lucas Holmquist]

On Jan 11, 2013, at 10:01 AM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc at 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)

This does seem brutal, unless there is some security issues with not doing this

i think it should be the client dev's responsibility to check if the return value exists.

> - 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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