Re: "Validate" (commons) versus "checkArgument" (guava)

Posted by Ufuk Celebi-2 on Mar 08, 2015; 2:21pm
URL: http://deprecated-apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.368.s1.nabble.com/Validate-commons-versus-checkArgument-guava-tp4286p4287.html


On 08 Mar 2015, at 15:05, Stephan Ewen <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Different parts of the code currently use different utilities to validate
> the arguments.
>
>  - Some parts use Guava (checkNotNull, checkArgument)
>  - Other parts use Validate from Apache commons-lang(3).
>
> How about we use one consistently, at least for all new code additions?
>
> In choosing one, I have a slight bias towards Guava, which has more/nicer
> methods and seems more popular in other projects (I have no source to back
> this up, it is a gut feeling from what I have seen in other projects that I
> looked into)

+1 I'm always using Guava for the same reasons.