On 25 Jun 2017, at 20:57, kant kodali
<kanth...@gmail.com<mailto:kanth...@gmail.com>> wrote:
impressive! I need to learn more about scala.
What I mean stripping away conditional check in Java is this.
static final boolean isLogInfoEnabled = false;
public void logMessage(String message) {
if(isLogInfoEnabled) {
log.info<http://log.info/>(message)
}
}
If you look at the byte code the dead if check will be removed.
Generally it's skipped in Java too now people move to SLF4J APIs, which does
on-demand string expansion
LOG.info<http://LOG.info>("network IO failure from {} source to {}", src,
dest, ex). That only builds the final string callis src.toString() and
dest.toString() when needed; handling null values too. So you can skip those
guards everywhere. But the string template is still constructed; it's not free,
and there's some merit in maintaining the guard @ debug level, though I don't
personally bother.
The spark one takes a closure, so it can do much more. However, you shouldn't
do anything with side effects, or indeed, anything prone to throwing
exceptions. Always try to write .toString() methods which are robust against
null values, that is: valid for the entire life of an instance. Your debuggers
will appreciate it too.
