Bug 458378

Description Andreas Graf 2015-01-26 03:40:58 EST

When writing checks on models, we often have to write code to check for null values. (E.g. if(x.getY() != null && x.getY().getZ())

That is quite annoying and boilerplate. The idea for this extension would be to add some default exception handling around the @Check-Methods that can be configured.

The idea is:

* Default is no exception handling
* We could then add an additional @Check parameter to specify how we would like the framework to deal with NPE:

* Ignore: Ignore any NPE thrown by Check
* Info/Warning/Error: Add an issue with the specified severity, informing the user about the NPE.

Then we could really reduce the Null-Checking within the Check mdethods.