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Niall Pemberton commented on LANG-667:
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@Julien - thanks for the suggestion, I'll look at this when I get home
@Paul - Lang is all about adding useful utilities that Java itself doesn't have
and theres alot of *prior art* here of null-safe utilities. Julien's example is
a great demonstration of how this function can be used to simplify code. This
feature is not a Comparable implementation and so breaks no contract. I really
don't understand your objection and IMO its a very weak argument to object on
the basis of Comparable's JavaDoc. How would you handle implementing a
compareTo() method where the properties being compared may be null - surely
you're not arguing that Julien's example should fail and throw a
NullPointerException if one of the properties is null?
> Add a Null-safe compare() method to ObjectUtils
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> Key: LANG-667
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-667
> Project: Commons Lang
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: lang.*
> Affects Versions: 2.5
> Reporter: Niall Pemberton
> Assignee: Niall Pemberton
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 3.0
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> Add a Null-safe compare() method to ObjectUtils
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