Re: accessing java bean's property
On 3/12/2010 5:29 PM, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
On 12-03-2010 11:25, Daniel Pitts wrote:
On 3/12/2010 6:02 AM, angelochen960@gmail.com wrote:
I have this bean:
public class Item {
private String type;
private Boolean pub;
This should probably be a "boolean", not a Boolean.
public String getType() { return type;}
public Boolean isPub() { return pub;}
Same as above. Boolean is an object reference type, which may end up
being null. Most of the time, you don't want a null for a boolean value.
This is true of most of the primitive types.
Data classes frequently have the requirement to support
null for data not available or not applicable.
Which is why I used the phrase "Most of the time" as opposed to "All of
the time".
In my experience, it is more common for someone mistakenly choose a
wrapper than for someone meaningfully choose a wrapper. It is also less
common that someone mistakenly chooses a primitive over a wrapper.
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