This tag should be used for questions where you are handling null variables or values.
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A possibly-terrible alternative to conditionals full of null checks
I am always super annoyed when I have to write a bunch of if statements whenever I have to traverse an object graph of possibly null objects. As there is not yet a ...
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Set a font for a UITextView if the font is nil or not equal to desired font
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I am setting a font for a UITextView that is a subview in a custom view. I only set it if the user didn't specify the font size in the Interface Builder.
I have the following working ...
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Sorting object with null values underscore sortBy
I'm sorting my object by its property ActivityOrder, which will sometimes contain null values if the user has not explicitly ...
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Comparing two objects having two nullable date fields
ExpiryDates has two properties PSL_ExpiryDate and MNL_ExpiryDate of type nullable date. I am ...
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Determining request status
This code gets request status based on request type and some mapping info.
I'm wondering if there is a way to write nice conditional expressions in if statement. Expression should test if ...
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Constructing a query string using StringBuilder
I speedily wrote a bunch of crappy checks, to check whether strings are empty, in order to build a query string.
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Detecting gyroscope data using promises
In a plugin that I am currently authoring, I am using a function to check whether the device provides gyroscopic data. Although intuitively this can be easily resolved by checking the value of ...
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Handle NullValueInNestedPathException
I am looking for a elegant solution to this. I am new to Spring framework. I have a method:
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Check for null/empty in dictionary
I am doing the following about 10 times with other strings, so the code is duplicated. How can I refactor this?
queryWhere is a ...
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Multiple functions to establish a fallback value for a property until not null
I have a property (called "Head") that can be set externally. When "Head" is not set, it uses Unity3D's MonoBehaviour functions to try to find the best value for ...
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Maybe getting a character from a list of strings
I'm trying to transition from JavaScript to PureScript (a Haskell spinoff that transpiles to JavaScript). For starters I coded this:
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Verifying value before parsing
I am writing some Java code and am coming across a try/catch block in which I decided to verify the value is not null before parsing it:
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Argument order with default value
I have a library with two methods: one takes an object and vararg strings, the other takes a default value as well.
They are currently implemented as:
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Return most recent non null field values for multiple unknown fields
I am attempting to create a stored procedure that looks at one table and imports changes in that table to another.
This stored procedure is going to be preformed on multiple source tables and will ...
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Returning the next node
What is considered to be a good programming practice for returning value from the function? For example, if we have a function in C named ...
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C# approach to prevent null references in strings
My insight here is that it's usually not useful to distinguish between null and empty strings. Sometimes it is, but usually not. Usually I like to assign my strings ...
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Basic Binary Tree in Go
As an exercise I have written a basic binary tree implementation in Go.
Tree struct:
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Making Multiple Copies of a Pattern
Here's a function for making multiple copies of a block of memory in another block of memory. It handles the case when the size of the target is smaller than or not a perfect multiple of the source ...
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Implementing a binary operation for the null object pattern
Today I needed to implement a class for representing rectangular regions with some binary operations such as merging or intersection.
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Classifying rows of data by the number of days to close
DataTable looks like below
I would like to simplify this code in a better manner.
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Gather first letter from each string in a list of strings
I'm learning Haskell on my own, and I'm wondering if this is idiomatic Haskell.
In particular: is it a common pattern to "wrap" the result in a list in order to make a function total? (that's what I ...
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Check if any of class properties is not null/empty/was assigned
I have a class that I use to display on a web page fieldset. However, all of the properties of this class are optionally filled in by the user, which means all of them could be null/default. In this ...
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IsNullOrWhiteSpace check for Java
I am needing to write my own IsNullOrWhiteSpace check for Java but am wondering if this is the best method to do so
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MySQL case statement with two tables
How can I improve the following working SQL statement for better performance and consistency?
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Cast an object to Decimal? or Int? etc but leave it as null if it is null
In a case like this:
object A1 = null;
Decimal? B = Convert.ToDecimal(A1);
object A2 = null;
int? C = Convert.ToInt32(A2);
Note that in case where ...
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Use different contructors of disposable class
I have a very simple helper class to validate credentials. Sometimes the domain has a value, sometimes not. Depending on this, a different constructor for ...
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Assign Specific Value If BitField Is True
My colleague created this SQL to handle certain user selections which are based on an on/off bit flag. The goal is to identify those individual bit flags with a specific integer which will be used in ...
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Writing null-safe code to set form values
I will ask my question using the following example:
HTML
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Correct practice for Python properties that depend on other attributes
When a property is essentially a boolean value for whether or not an attribute exists or is set a certain way, is it more appropriate to create an object that does not list the option attribute in its ...
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NULL-eating / elimination version of fgets() in C
I've come up with the following routine to read data from a file stream, but I don't want any NULLs in the stream to terminate the string early. This function will ...
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Checking a value before assigning it to variable
Throughout my code, I find myself testing if the output of a function is undefined or blank before i use the output. In this case, getQuery checks if the property of an object is either blank or if ...
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Creating check parameter class instead of repetitive null checks
What I'm trying to accomplish is to have a error checking class mostly to check if parameters that are pass null but also data structures within class are not null. So my thought is a clean static ...
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Too many null checks in an XML-to-XML transformation
I'm writing a conversion mechanism in C#. I deserialize a big XML document of one type and return a big XML document of another type (via serialization of another object).
While I'm doing the ...
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Null checking in nested getter calls [closed]
I have the following piece of code and I would like to see what different approaches would be to solve that in a more elegant way.
The thing is that I don't know whether is better to have the null ...
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Writing a generic performance efficient isEmpty method which can check for null or emptiness
I am writing a utility method which can check for empty and null string, or collection or an object or any general types -
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Using Common Table Expression and Outer queries
In following query I'm use both Common Table Expression and Outer queries. Apparently both looks same to me.
If I summarize my requirement, I have employees in ...
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Getting matching items in lists based on nullable properties
I'm iterating through two lists to find matching objects. The objects have two string properties, Id1 and Id2 below. If ...
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Organization data class
I believe I have made the following data class quite decently, and I'd like a thorough review on it.
The code is built on Java 8 and uses the Builder and Serialization Proxy pattern, it is used to ...
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Is checking for null redundant while using Contract Annotator from JetBrains?
I'm curious whether checking for null is redundant in this concrete example.
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PHP isset over use? Good or bad?
First, I'm in no way an experienced PHP coder. This is my 5th time working with PHP, so if you see anything that can bee improve, please point them out for me.
I have the code checking for the ...
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Duplication with nested null checks
How can I improve this code with nested null check statements?
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Alternative to null check after DOM traversal?
I have this code working, but I'm not sure if it's the best way to write it. I was watching a JS talk on Maintainable JavaScript, and saw that I probably shouldn't be comparing my element to null, ...
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Using finally with return statement or not
I was wondering if it is the proper way to always put the return statement of a function with a try-catch clause in the finally ...
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Domain object toString null check
Following advice to "Make good use of toString() for all Domain classes", I made what I thought was the most useful toString ...
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How do I better structure Java code to avoid dereferencing null? [closed]
I have the situation where as long as the user gives valid input, the StringBuilder object will not be null.
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Extension method to return a default value for any null value
I'm creating an extension method that can be used on any type. The idea is that if this method is called, it checks if value is null. If null, it needs to return a default instance of the specified ...
