<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>I'd dearly love to hear some good argument why null in a List<Things> is good coding<br></div>practice (note: I'm not asking for "best practice"). - Compare these two sentences:<br>
<br></div> He looked into her eyes....<br></div> He looked into her eyes.<br><br></div>It's pretty obvious that the ellipsis indicates a planned absence of words, whereas the<br>second sentence just shows a void, or no void, at its end. (Or: lover or typo or oculist.)<br>
What I'm trying to say is that a null planned to show a special case is indistinguishable<br>from the null that happens due to an error.<br><br></div><div>Processing "from" while covering null is just postponing the detection of an error - if<br>
you are with me that null shouldn't be there in the first place.<br></div><div><br></div>But, yes, you can test:<br></div> list contains null<br></div>should tell you whether there is a fly in the ointment.<br><div>
<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-W<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 April 2013 15:28, dcrissman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dcrissman@redhat.com" target="_blank">dcrissman@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I ran into this situation for which there doesn't seem to be a solution for:<br>
<a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/DROOLS-71" target="_blank">https://issues.jboss.org/browse/DROOLS-71</a><br>
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I am using drools v. 5.5.0.Final<br>
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My preference would be for Drools to simply skip the null value, but if<br>
that is not possible, is there a way to check for a null entry?<br>
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How have other people worked through this issue?<br>
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Thanks.<br>
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