<Swing Dev> [11] Review Request: JDK-5076761 : JList.setSelectedValue(null, ...) doesn't do anything

[Sergey Bylokhov]

On 17/01/2018 08:41, Semyon Sadetsky wrote:
>> I already listed a methods which use null as an absent of the value. 
>> And current methods were implemented with this intention.
> But JList is fully usable without them.

No because getSelectedValue() will return null if no elements is selected.

>>
>>>  as well as any pointer that JList couldn't contain null.
>>
>> There are no references to null in the javadoc which means that null 
>> is unsupported. By default the null value is unsupported, and it can 
>> be considered as supported only if spec accept that.
> That is a good argument that proves that null is not considered as a 
> special value.

What argument? There are no description that null is supported, but 
there are a description that null is used in somecases like 
getSelectedValue().


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Best regards, Sergey.