Jakarta-commons HttpClient inquiry:

Why does the NameValuePair constructor allow
null parameters?

This is how the code currently looks:

NameValuePair.java

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    /**
     * Constructor.
     */
    public NameValuePair(String name, String value) {

        this.name = name;
        this.value = value;

    }

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With this constructor, it is allowable for a caller to do this:

    NameValuePair nvp = new NameValuePair(null, null);

I would prefer if the NameValuePair constructor did not allow null parameters.

I prefer this constructor:

    /**
     * Constructor.
     */
    public NameValuePair(String name, String value) {

        if (null == name) {
            throw new NullPointerException("name parameter is null");
        }
        if (null == value) {
            throw new NullPointerException("value parameter is null");
        }
 
        this.name = name;
        this.value = value;

    }


Regards,

-Sean



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