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Jason van Zyl commented on MNG-5649:
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Where exactly? I'd like to start using Guava's Preconditions class for these
sorts of checks.
> Stop abusing IllegalArgumentException in case of null
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> Key: MNG-5649
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5649
> Project: Maven 2 & 3
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 3.2.1
> Reporter: Michael Osipov
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> In several spots of Maven Core, IAE is thrown where an argument is null. This
> should be turned into {{NullPointerException}} since JDK adheres to is and
> the
> [description|http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/NullPointerException.html]
> of this exception indicates that and Effective Java does that too.
> I possible fix version could next minor: 3.3. Is no one is opposed it could
> even be 3.2.2.
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