Assertion

[Girish Nagaraj]

Hi All,

I was reading tutorial on java which says

1)"Assertions can be used to validate the parameters passed to a private method."
2)"However,assertions should not be used to validate parameters passed to public methods because a public method must check its arguments regardless of whether assertions are enabled or not."

Could any one explain above statements with example code please.........

Thanks in advance,

[Naveen Kollipara]

Reg assertions i think the above two points are about which one is appropriate and which is not.

Have a glance on the following

1)First point is assertions are not going to be there when the application is deployed.

2)Second one is public methods can be called from anywhere and anytime.
If u use assertions the parameters are not going to be validated at
runtime because Refer point one

3)The lastone is private methods r called from with in a class u can assure
abt the values.

hmmm .....

simply private methods are under our control
whereas public ones r not in our hand.

Hope it is cleared and i don't think extra code is required.

[marc weber]

Hi Girish, welcome to JavaRanch!

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