David, I think your question is mostly rhetorical. Most of the code in this class are one-liners. If you can answer it for this method, you have answered it for all.
I also think it's a common idiom... and so are the other small stuff in here. Paul On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:46 PM, David Holmes - Sun Microsystems <david.hol...@sun.com> wrote: > Paul, > > Paul Benedict said the following on 11/15/09 11:28: >> >> I would like to propose adding this method: >> >> /** >> * Selects the object if not {...@code null}; otherwise fallsback to the >> * specified default object. >> * >> * @param object the object to test >> * @param defaultObject the default object >> * @return the object if not {...@code null}; otherwise the default object >> */ >> public static Object defaultIfNull(Object object, Object defaultObject) { >> return (object != null) ? object : defaultObject; >> } > > I don't get it. Why would anyone need the above when they can write: > > obj != null ? obj : otherObj > > themselves ??? Compared to > > defaultIfNull(obj, otherObj) > > you don't even save any keystrokes (and this is with a static import)! > > David Holmes > >