Code Review 6706251: api/java_net/NetworkInterface/index.html#misc: getDisplayName() returned non null but empty String (original) (raw)

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at Sun.COM
Fri Mar 19 08:12:51 PDT 2010

Christopher Hegarty - Sun Microsystems Ireland wrote:

: I vaguely remember the history of this issue (Michael will know better), but the expectation from the API is that while empty string is not disallowed if the display name cannot be retrieved then null should be returned.

I think such a clarification is unnecessary in the API, it is such a corner case, and may be confusing. If the empty string is not allowed then changing the @return to make this clear would be good.

-Alan.

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