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From: Daniel Naber <daniel.naber@t-online.de>
To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Re: svn commit: r164695 - in /lucene/java/trunk: CHANGES.txt
 src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/Hit.java
 src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/HitIterator.java
 src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/Hits.java
 src/test/org/apache/lucene/TestHitIterator.java
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:51:03 +0200
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On Tuesday 26 April 2005 21:09, Erik Hatcher wrote:

> I don't know.... would it? =C2=A0I have no preference, though it seems ok=
 to
> me to simply return null since this is the toString method. =C2=A0For a
> Document, the toString is only useful for debugging anyway.

Yes, and during debugging it would be especially confusing to just hide the=
=20
exception. Sure, people will see that there's a problem with a "null"=20
document, but then why not show the exception directly?

Regards
 Daniel

=2D-=20
http://www.danielnaber.de

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