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Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 14:02:25 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Gilles (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Commented: (MATH-403) Never propagate a
 "NullPointerException" resulting from bad usage of the API
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Gilles commented on MATH-403:
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Discussion is ongoing on whether we should really _always_ check for "null".

For those cases where it will make the failure closer to the source of the problem (the uninitialized reference), a "checkNotNull" utility method will added in "MathUtils".


> Never propagate a "NullPointerException" resulting from bad usage of the API
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MATH-403
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-403
>             Project: Commons Math
>          Issue Type: Task
>            Reporter: Gilles
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 3.0
>
>
> Package "exception" contains a class named "NullArgumentException" meant to signal that an argument was "null" where it shouldn't have been.
> For consistency, every method of the API should be checked for "null" arguments and throw "NullArgumentException" appropriately.
> This means hunting down all unchecked uses of references. Is there a tool that will report those?

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