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NullPointer Exception handling in the code [closed]

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Is catching null pointer exception to handle it instead of null check beforehand always a bad practice or it depends? [closed]

I wrote a static method for an enum that returns the corresponding enum instance based on the source string, trimming any whitespaces and ignoring case as: ...
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Throwing exceptions if there is not exactly one box retrieved

(Note: this is originally posted as this SO question ) I'm trying to refactor the error logging and exception throwing into a method. Original code: ...
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Verifying value before parsing

I am writing some Java code and am coming across a try/catch block in which I decided to verify the value is not null before parsing it: ...
Vince's user avatar
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User registration Servlet

I have a servlet that processes user registration to a website. It takes inputs from an HTML form like username, password, email, etc. MySQL Table: ...
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Creating check parameter class instead of repetitive null checks

What I'm trying to accomplish is to have a error checking class mostly to check if parameters that are pass null but also data structures within class are not null. So my thought is a clean static ...
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Using finally with return statement or not

I was wondering if it is the proper way to always put the return statement of a function with a try-catch clause in the finally ...
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