[GitHub] ant pull request #45: Consider returning a zero length array rather than nul...

[BruceKuiLiu <gi...@git.apache.org>]

GitHub user BruceKuiLiu opened a pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/ant/pull/45

    Consider returning a zero length array rather than null.

    It is often a better design to return a length zero array rather than a null reference to indicate that there are no results (i.e., an empty list of results).
    This way, no explicit check for null is needed by clients of the method.
    On the other hand, using null to indicate "there is no answer to this question" is probably appropriate.
    http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/bugDescriptions.html#PZLA_PREFER_ZERO_LENGTH_ARRAYS

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commit ca2fbf36183b82457fe6d161b77a6b10ae2e457f
Author: Kui LIU <br...@gmail.com>
Date:   2017-10-14T15:06:08Z

    Consider returning a zero length array rather than null.
    
    It is often a better design to return a length zero array rather than a null reference to indicate that there are no results (i.e., an empty list of results).
    This way, no explicit check for null is needed by clients of the method.
    On the other hand, using null to indicate "there is no answer to this question" is probably appropriate.
    http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/bugDescriptions.html#PZLA_PREFER_ZERO_LENGTH_ARRAYS

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