[CMIS-136] Collection properties of data objects should return empty collection instead of null

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.1.0-incubating
• Component/s: opencmis-client-bindings
• Assignee: Stephan Klevenz
• Reporter: Stephan Klevenz
• Created: 26/Feb/10 09:17
• Updated: 14/Jun/10 13:56
• Resolved: 26/Feb/10 10:20

Description

This is a wish. Some data objects in org.apache.opencmis.commons return null for collection properties in case of the collection is empty. I would like to suggest that collection return always empty list rather than null. Null leads to unnecessary checks everywhere and causes a lot of NPE. It is simply error prone.

What do you think?