That's great, latest Eclipse has support for null annotations as well,
you might have to turn them on in the compiler settings though.
Andriy
2015-02-23 6:00 GMT-05:00 Daniel Naber <daniel.na...@languagetool.org>:
> Hi,
>
> I've added quite some '@Nullable' annotations to methods. They indicate
> that a method might return null. How does that help? Assume you have
> code like this:
>
> myObject.foo().someMethod();
>
> Now if foo() returns null, this would throw a NullPointerException. But
> when foo() has been annotated (e.g. "@Nullable public String foo()
> {...}"), your IDE can warn you about this code. IntelliJ warns by
> default, not sure about Eclipse.
>
> I suggest that all methods that may return null should be annotated with
> @Nullable (org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable), not just public methods.
> Anyway, often it's even better to not return null, e.g. if a list is
> returned, the list may be empty but not null. Also, for public methods
> it should be documented in javadoc when a method can return null.
>
> Regards
> Daniel
>
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