The other thing you could do is define a resource symbol and reserve it for "null".
But I'm almost positive that zero is "reserved" already and can serve as null, and I strongly doubt that a valid resource id would ever be negative. On Sep 15, 2:29 pm, Mark Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it possible that a resource id (such as a generated id for a string > resource) can be a negative int? > > Often, when defining a method that accepts a resource id, I want the > caller to be able to specify a "null" value. For primitives this is > not possible, but I'm wondering whether "any negative value" may be a > good approach? > > Alternatively I suppose it would be OK to specify the argument as an > Integer and take advantage of auto-boxing. > > Thoughts? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
