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Jacopo Cappellato reassigned OFBIZ-5004:
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    Assignee: Jacopo Cappellato

> Warning in GenericEntity.get unnecessarily clutters logs
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>                 Key: OFBIZ-5004
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5004
>             Project: OFBiz
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: framework
>    Affects Versions: SVN trunk
>            Reporter: Christoph Neuroth
>            Assignee: Jacopo Cappellato
>         Attachments: iae.patch
>
>
> This code in GenericEntity.java:
> {code}Debug.logWarning("The field name (or key) [" + name + "] is not valid 
> for entity [" + this.getEntityName() + "], printing IllegalArgumentException 
> instead of throwing it because Map interface specification does not allow 
> throwing that exception.", module);
> {code}
> is really annoying and IMHO it is wrong. 
> First, it does not print an exception, it only prints that string with no 
> stacktrace (I think that was changed at some point).
> Second, IllegalArgument is a RuntimeException so the interface doesn't really 
> need to allow it to be thrown, right?
> Personally, I think the warning is not even justified. We sometimes don't 
> know exactly what kind of entity we're dealing with and just check if it has 
> that field or not. With this code, to prevent excessive log clutter, we have 
> to wrap each call with a "if (it.containsKey())". A java map will just return 
> null silently as well, and this behavior is documented in the Map interface. 
> If anyone is really worried about accessing fields wrong (your tests should 
> catch that error), there could be an extra method "getOrThrow" or something, 
> but get should just return the value or null.
> Otherwise, at least throw the exception. Log warnings are usually found while 
> monitoring production logs, developers will find this much earlier otherwise.



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