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Viraj Turakhia commented on LANG-458:
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Hi Stephen,
I am sorry, I could not find CollectionUtils in [lang]. Please help me in 
finding it.

I agree we should not have Validate.isEmpty() if present elsewhere. But should 
we not call that method from Validate.notEmpty() so as to avoid code 
duplication.

Also, I could not see methods like hasNullElement() in ArrayUtils which, I 
think, are very helpful methods and clients might not always want to see 
exception being thrown.

Let me know your thoughts.

> Add methods to return boolean from Validate.java instead of throwing 
> IllegalArgumentException
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LANG-458
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-458
>             Project: Commons Lang
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>         Environment: software
>            Reporter: Viraj Turakhia
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: code_diff.txt, test_diff.txt
>
>
> I am using Validate.java since long and find it difficult to use when I just 
> want to validate collections or string.
> With current interface, I go like this:
> while(cnt < list.size()) {
>     List list1 = list.get(cnt);
>     try {
>         Validate.notEmpty(list1);
>     } catch(IllegalArgumentException e) {
>         continue;
>     }
> }
> much better approach is:
> while(cnt < list.size()) {
>     List list1 = list.get(cnt);
>     try {
>     if(! Validate.notEmpty(list1)) {
>         continue;
>     }
> }
> If you all agree with this change, I am willing to submit a patch for this.

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