> -----Original Message----- > From: sebb [mailto:seb...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 11:28 > To: Commons Developers List > Subject: [pool] can the factory field ever usefully be null? > > Now that the setFactory() methods have been removed, and the factories > made immutable, does it still make sense to ever allow a null factory? > > Some places still check for null, some assume non-null. > There are also some ctors which set the factory to null. > > Seems to me that the factory field needs to be final and non-null; the > ctor should enfore non-null, and then there is no further need to > check it for null.
Then we can remove ctors that do not specify a factory. For example: GenericObjectPool() Gary > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org