Re: Constructor
Mike Schilling wrote:
Roedy Green wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:48:09 -0700 (PDT), Philipp <djbulu@gmail.com>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
Do I have a guarantee that object is not null when I call doStuff?
Or
is there a possible execution path which reaches .doStuf() with
object being null?
It is quite nice. Not only can be you be absolutely sure new
returned
an actual object, you can also be sure the constructor completed
normally right after the new.
Otherwise you would have an exception which you may optionally
catch.
Of course you can be perverse and try to access the object in your
catch or after you have been notified of the problem.
Nitpick: you can't access the object, since there won't be any
reference to it. You can use the reference that was going to be
assigned to it, but you'll see its previous contents.
If the constructor is bad-written and allow the this reference to escape
before the constructor returns succesully it is possible to access to
a reference even if the constructor throws an Exception.
public class Main {
static Foo escaped;
static class Foo {
public Foo() {
escaped = this; // escaping! don't do this at home!
throw new RuntimeException();
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
Foo foo = new Foo();
} catch (RuntimeException e) {
System.out.println("This reference escaped from constructor:" +
escaped);
}
}
}
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