Hi all,
Please review this changeset that introduces a new no-arg method orElseThrow()
to Optional, as a preferred alternative to the get() method.
Corresponding methods are also added to OptionalDouble, Int, and Long.
The orElseThrow() method is functionally identical to get(). It has some
affinity with the existing orElseThrow(exceptionSupplier) method, being
equivalent to orElseThrow(NoSuchElementException::new).
The get() method is functionally unchanged. It is NOT being deprecated, although
some wording in the doc has been added to point to orElseThrow() as the
"preferred alternative." This is part of a (slow) migration away from
Optional.get(), which has an obvious, attractive name that is often misused.
These issues have been discussed on this list previously:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2016-April/040484.html
Please note that much of that discussion was about the then-proposed deprecation
of Optional.get(), which is NOT part of this proposal. There are no plans to
deprecate Optional.get() at this time. This proposal ONLY introduces a new
method orElseThrow() that is identical in function to get().
Bug report:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8140281
Webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~smarks/reviews/8140281/webrev.1/
Thanks,
s'marks
