Hi Mike,
Stephan Berman wrote:
> > For historical reasons, implementations of XMultiComponentFactory
> > indeed
> > often return null instead of throwing an exception. For backwards
> > compatibility, we should probably not consider this a bug. But it
> > is
> > highly appropriate that you file an issue to clarify the
> > documentation
> > of XMultiComponentFactory et al (XMultiServiceFactory,
> > XSingleComponentFactory, XSingleServiceFactory).
>
> I understand. I have definitely been in the situation where you're
> stuck for backwards compatibility.
>
> I've opened a ticket (#47179) for documenting when a null is
> returned.
I don't consider this a resonable report. Of course, bugs have to be
fixed or if that's not possible, documented. But you are describing
a general concept of bugs, not a certain instance of a bug. Same problem,
just with a much broader spectrum of possible instances would to report a
bug asking for documenting under which circumstances OOo crashes ;-)
Thus, I will only "fix" this issue by stating in the documentation of
the factory interfaces that some old and buggy implemetation might return
a null value instead of raising an exception. Who finds concrete
violations of the specificaiton can and should report these concrete
issues, of course.
Michael
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