On 12.09.2012, at 01:23, Michael Dürig <mdue...@apache.org> wrote: > As an alternative: we could use a separate method getSize(int max) which > > * if called with max == -1 returns the exact size if quickly available, > * returns -1 otherwise, and > * returns the exact size but not more then max when called with max >= 0.
+1 clean and obvious (points the app developer to the issue without having to know another method like hasSize()) Cheers, Alex