Github user miguelaferreira commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1056#issuecomment-155525984 If there will be no error recovery for the exception thrown on host == null, then you will probably be better off with using Optional<T>. It's in Java8, but also in Guava, I think.
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