Hi Tom,
Great! Please go ahead.
But please document this rule in the cookbook.
Regards,
Michiel
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From: "Tom Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 4:29 PM
Subject: [argouml-dev] Null vs empty collection in API
We have a number of places where API methods which are specified to return
a
Collection can also return a null value. This causes the caller to have
to
write additional unnecessary code to first check for null before using the
return value.
I'd like us to forbid this practice and require all methods which are
specified to return a Collection be required to return an empty collection
instead of a null. Unless there objections, I'm going to start by
changing
any methods in the Model subsystem which exhibit this behavior.
Tom
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