RFR 9: 8138963 : java.lang.Objects new method to default to non-null

[Stephen Colebourne]

On 9 October 2015 at 01:31, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
> This leads me to yet another bikeshed color, FWIW:
>
>  - T requireNonNull(T) (cf. Optional::get)
>  - T requireNonNullElse(T,T) (cf. Optional::orElse)
>  - T requireNonNullElseGet(T,Supplier<T>) (cf. Optional::orElseGet)
>  - T requireNonNullElseThrow(T,Supplier<X>) (cf. Optional::orElseThrow)
>  - T requireNonNull(T,String) (shorthand for common use of requireNonNullElseThrow)

Note that there is already a new method in JDK 8 not listed above:
 requireNonNull(T, Supplier<String>)
As such, I'm not convinced that requireNonNullElseThrow will pull its weight.

I can see the benefits of this consistency of naming. (FWIW, I think
the "require" prefix was a mistake, but that ship has sailed). If this
naming is chosen, I'd like to see all the methods next to one another
in the source file, which involves moving the method added in JDK 8.

Stephen