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Michael Osipov reassigned MNG-6164:
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Assignee: Karl Heinz Marbaise (was: Michael Osipov)
> Collections inconsistently immutable
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>
> Key: MNG-6164
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6164
> Project: Maven
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 3.5.0
> Reporter: Christian Schulte
> Assignee: Karl Heinz Marbaise
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 3.6.0-candidate
>
>
> There are plenty of places where empty collections are returned from public
> API in methods written like:
> {code}
> public List<Exception> getExceptions()
> {
> return exceptions == null ? Collections.<Exception>emptyList() :
> exceptions;
> }
> {code}
> The issue with this is that the empty list is immutable but the collection
> returned for the nun-null case is not immutable.
> All those methods should return a collection with consistent "mutability":
> either mutable, either immutable.
> Given empty immutable collections do not cause harm until now, switching
> consistently to immutable collections is more conservative and should not be
> risky
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