Re: [general] throw exception OR return value

[Kris Nuttycombe]

John Keyes wrote:

If I have an instance that implements an interface, but does not need
to implement all of the methods, is it better to return a value or
throw an exception.
The convention that I use, and have seen in at least some 
Jakarta-commons code, is to throw java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException.

Kris

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Kris Nuttycombe
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