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Set that prohibits null values

 
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Hi,

I've been looking through the implementations of the Set interface available in JDK 5 and can't find any that prohibits null values. Does such an implementation exist?

Thanks,
Dan
 
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It says in the Set interface API documentation that a Set contains at most one null. It says some implementations prohibit nulls, but not which.
Suggest, maybe, you write a wrapper class around a HashSet and for all the add methods throw an Exception (probably NullPointerException) if the element is null.
 
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You could take the one from apache's commons collections:
http://commons.apache.org/collections/

 
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Thanks for the suggestions. I should have mentioned that I'm looking for a generified Set that prohibits nulls, so given that extra requirement, the Apache commons implementation is unsuitable.

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Dan
 
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