[MATH-403] Never propagate a "NullPointerException" resulting from bad usage of the API

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Gilles Sadowski
• Created: 07/Aug/10 08:59
• Updated: 24/Mar/12 16:17
• Resolved: 05/Jun/11 15:01

Description

Package "exception" contains a class named "NullArgumentException" meant to signal that an argument was "null" where it shouldn't have been.
For consistency, every method of the API should be checked for "null" arguments and throw "NullArgumentException" appropriately.

This means hunting down all unchecked uses of references. Is there a tool that will report those?