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Code Snippet Of the Day (CodeSOD) features interesting and usually incorrect code snippets taken from actual production code in a commercial and/or open source software projects.
Frederick A sends us a bit of null checking code, and offers us a better solution.
Jul 26class ConferenceService
{
/// <summary>
/// Checks if conference is active
/// </summary>
public bool IsCalling()
{
try
{
return m_ConnectionService.Core.State.IsWebRTCConnected;
}
catch
{
return false;
}
}
}
Frequent submitter Capybara James sends us this simple snippet, which highlights that even when you have the lovely convenience of Optional types, you can use them wrong.
if (StringUtils.hasLength(dto.getAssetModelUUID())
// Other conditions
) {
return Optional.ofNullable(dto);
}