Optional Class
Learn about the `Optional` class in Java.
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Introduction
Java 8 comes with the Optional
class in the java.util
package for avoiding null return values (and thus NullPointerException
). It is very similar to Google Guava’s Optional
, which is similar to Nat Pryce’s Maybe
class and Scala’s Option
class.
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