I was expecting that with the discovery that optional throws a null pointer exception when the retrieved value is null would be enough to remove this functionality.
I am concerned that once added it will be difficult to remove and that its operation is not congruent with stream based optional usage. Claude On 14 Dec 2017 10:33, "Andy Seaborne" <a...@apache.org> wrote: > Claude, > > The JIRA ticket ends: > > [[ > ASF GitHub Bot added a comment - 04/Dec/17 15:36 > > That was already the case in the PR and I've added text to call it out > explicitly into the javadoc. > ---- > githubbot ASF GitHub Bot added a comment - 04/Dec/17 15:40 > > Github user ajs6f commented on the issue: > > https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/323 > > Okay, that works for me! > ---- > Andy Seaborne added a comment - 04/Dec/17 15:58 > > nextOptional added for release 3.6.0. > > Proposal: close this JIRA for now, see how nextOptional works out and > revisit orElse* based on experience. > ---- > ajs6f A. Soroka added a comment - 1 week ago > > +1 > ]] > > Adding nextOptional, and no others, is in the RC. > > What were you expecting? > > Andy > > On 14/12/17 08:44, Claude Warren wrote: > >> Perhaps i wasn't paying close enough attention but i didn't think adding >> optional and other streaming methods had been agreed. In fact i thought >> quite the oposite. >> >> If i am wrong please forgive the noise. If i am correct shouldn't 1427 be >> removed from the release candidate? >> >> Claude >> >>