what to do for nulls

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what to do for nulls

October 17th, 2008 by Jeanne Boyarsky

A logical follow up to null checking in the extreme and Never return Null Arrays, is what we should be doing when a null does get returned. The problem Consider the following method: public void method() { StringBuilder builder = UnreliableCode.createBuilder(); if ( builder != null ) { builder.append("data"); } This time, a null check [...]