-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/04/10 11:36, Kiran Ayyagari wrote: > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Felix Knecht <fe...@otego.com> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Do we leave it up to third party developers to take care that only >> correct values are passed or do we have to take care that otherwise an >> exception is thrown? To give an example from shared AttributUtils: >> We never check if the object to clone is a String, we just presume that >> any other developer using this class respects the convention given by >> javadoc. Can we do so or should an exception be thrown in such cases? > > think it is ok to assume the other value as string, IMHO a throws > clause makes the caller > code cluttered with try/catch blocks (assuming that we are throwing a > checked exception) > > P.S:- hmm not sure if throwing a IllegalArgumentException is the right > idea here, but is a good choice
Hehe ... Sounds like the answer of a politician :-) > > thanks Felix > > Kiran Ayyagari > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwIyzcACgkQ2lZVCB08qHG6dwCfQLkHMgKNTWMpGN/hhtcJFs63 i3kAn0LzOKCH+aWo60OQWLbvLUX6SbdL =nWpg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
