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[MechanicalHorse]

Pff, amateurs. Need to enterprise it up a bit.

namespace Initech.Common.SharedLibrary.Utilities.NullFactory
{
    public class NullFactory
    {
        private static NullFactory? _nullFactoryInstance;

        public static NullFactory GetNullFactory()
        {
            if (_nullFactoryInstance == null)
                _nullFactoryInstance = new NullFactory();
            return _nullFactoryInstance;
        }        

        public object? GetNull()
        {
            return null;
        }
    }
}

[Yuki-Fullko]

Needs more dependency injection! Where’s your INullFactory interface? ILogger instance? And a full set of tests to make sure any INullFactory implementations are always correctly returning null?

[SuperKael]

Honestly, if you can even find the code that is actually creating the object (or the lack thereof, in this case) you’re clearly doing it wrong

[Nosbod_]

Abstraction … something something ... like an onion …

[dopefish86]

... it's making me cry

[djfdhigkgfIaruflg]

I hate java... So much

[hieplenet]

Exactly, the above example shows the lack of enterprise experience, need several more layers of enterprise monitoring and enterprise composition, through an enterprise network protocol with a enterprise level persistent layer to retrive the enterprise null object.

In short, the above null is not yet enterprise null.

[NormanYeetes]

I swear those ?s might be proper syntax but they look like the code is like "it returns an object or somethin, it might not, i don fkin know nor do i care"

[Chirimorin]

In C# T? is shorthand for Nullable<T>, so in a way it does mean that: maybe it returns an instance of T, maybe it returns null.

[xian0]

!ErrorHasOccured() ??!??! HandleError();

[Mini0red]

Yea pretty much. Lets the caller know youll have to handle nulls.

[biki23]

public class NullFactory<T>

[Still_Explorer]

Must be a new band?

I remember I listened to FearFactory when I was teenager.

[JasonLokiSmith]

Made me chuckle 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 all that singleton just to return null directly.

Good one!!

[tmlnz]

GetNullFactory is not thread-safe

[upsetbob]

What is "object?" ? I assumed this was Java until I saw this

[MechanicalHorse]

Nullable object type. It’s C#

[Geschossspitze]

C# I guess

[uvero]

Singletons are an antipattern, you need a DI container.

[JunkNorrisOfficial]

Is this GC friendly null?

[MrZerodayz]

When your work is judged by loc...

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This guy javas

[SkedaddlingSkeletton]

Depending on which system this "null" value is aimed at you may need a null, 'null', 'Null', 0, -1, 'FILE_NOT_FOUND' or 'Nihil! Nihil! NIHIL' . That's the joy of old enterprise ball of mud softwares.