[jira] [Commented] (LANG-753) Validate.notNull() should throw IllegalArgumentException but throws NullPointerException

["Max Ullinger (Commented) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Max Ullinger commented on LANG-753:
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We are in the same boat here.

We are NOT interested in WHAT is wrong with an object, we just want to know if it is correct according to our validation rules, and if not abandon current processing.
That means having to catch more than one exception is tedious, enflates code and adds nothing in our case (and is therefore something we will not do with our rather large codebase).

If we want to know exactly why validation fails it does not help us to know what kind of exception was thrown, the object in question needs to be examined field per field anyway.

It would be easy enough to have a wrapper class for Validate that changes the type of the thrown exception to IllegalArgumentException (and we might do that as a workaround), but I am still not convinced that going with more than one exception is what people need from Validate.

Changing the behaviour back would therefore make sense, I feel.

Still, keep up the good work!
                
> Validate.notNull() should throw IllegalArgumentException but throws NullPointerException
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LANG-753
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-753
>             Project: Commons Lang
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: lang.*
>    Affects Versions: 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.1
>            Reporter: Oliver Siegmar
>
> Validate.notNull() throws an IllegalArgumentException in commons-lang 2.6, but in 3.0.1 it throws a NullPointerException. I can't find any note about this in the release notes. I think this is a regression, because it could break others code.

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