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Can getCapability throw, or must it return null?


josephcsible

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If hasCapability would return false for a given capability and facing, must getCapability return null for the same capability and facing, or may it throw an exception? Conversely, may you call getCapability and test for null instead of calling hasCapability?

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I imagine that if you return false from has, then get won't even be called in most cases. In the rest, I imagine that the caller would perform a null check.

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7 hours ago, diesieben07 said:

Oh yes, that definitely exists.

It doesn't answer the question, which was:

Would anything bad happen if the has/get contract is broken?

Obviously if you say "true" and return "null" then yes, but he's specifically asking for situations where has returns false.

 

The "do I need to call has or can I just check null?" question you and I talked about before.

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