Hello,
Turbine make extensive use of java.util.Properties
The problem that I am coming across is that if Properties.getProperty(x)
can't find x it returns null.
However, a majority of the code base doesn't check for null:
find . -name '*.java' -print -exec grep -B 2 -A 5 'getProperty' {} ';'
And in a majority of the cases, the next step after getting the property
is to do a compare against some string constant.
We have two solutions:
1. go back and check for null everywhere
2. subclass off Properties (SafeProperties) that returns
the string "undef" if the property isn't defined.
I am doing some work for the torque stuff (see my post in a few minutes)
and in order to get things to work, I started to add the null check, but
I soon realized how much code would needed to be changed.
I will be happy to do either 1 or 2. I can send the diffs once I am done
and someone can commit them for me.
(I have no vote, but if I did, I'd vote for doing number 2, and we
can go back and apply a sed script to replace Properties with (SafeProperties)
and be done.)
thanks again everyone!
mike
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