Ok - agreed
On Jan 10, 2007, at 6:14 AM, Alexey Varlamov wrote:
2007/1/9, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Jan 9, 2007, at 8:52 AM, Tim Ellison wrote:
> Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>> I disagree with you all :)
>>
>> The spec is not that ambiguous - it says :
>>
>> Returns : the signer certificates for the underlying permission
>> that has not been resolved, or null, if there are no signer
>> certificates. Returns a new array each time this method is
called.
>>
>> Given that it says "Returns a new array each time this method is
>> called", I'd return an empty array, so that if people aren't
checking
>> for null (why would you, it says it will return an array....),
they
>> don't get an NPE.
Nope, the spec directly says "returns ... null, if there are no signer
certificates". The second sentence is mainly about internal array
immutability, i.e. a user cannot modify the permission certificates by
changing the returned value. This is formulated a bit vaguely, but
still understandable.
[snip]
But I thought you said
"returns null on Harmony, as required by the spec."
The spec could be read to require that you return an empty array,
rather than null.
No, clearly not.
geir
