Re: Best way to check if all elements in a List are unique
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Lew wrote:
Mike Schilling wrote:
boolean areListElementsUnique(List<?> l)
{
return l.size() == new HashSet<Object>(l).size();
}
laredotornado wrote:
Lew wrote:
Don't forget to null-check the argument!
Tom Anderson wrote:
The method already does that - if it's null, you get a
NullPointerException.
Umm, the point of my comment was to *avoid* the NPE, duhh. Why cause trouble
for the method's client?
I'm hoping that you're being sarcastic. Or that i've misunderstood - i
read your comment as suggesting that the method should null-check the
incoming argument.
The right thing for this method to do if passed a null argument is to
throw an exception. There is no uncertainty about that. And it already
does that, so no check is necessary.
tom
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