On 12/06/2012 06:40, David Holmes wrote:
This is very, very common in the core libraries. Rather than document
every single method where a null parameter triggers NPE they are often
covered (directly or indirectly) by blanket statements of the form
"unless otherwise stated ...".
Right, @throws NullPointerException can be considered clutter so it's
common to see a blanket statement in the class or package description.
In the case of String it already has:
* <p> Unless otherwise noted, passing a <tt>null</tt> argument to a
constructor
* or method in this class will cause a {@link NullPointerException} to be
* thrown.
This was added via 4703640 a long time ago.
Clearly a blanket statement like this doesn't make sense in all cases as
there will be APIs that define many methods that allow null.
-Alan
