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The most important part is that using the Optional you are explicilty telling the user of your API that they may receive a value, or they may not. And both cases are clearly usable and testable.
That's basically the only use I see for using Optional, clear communication that you might not get anything.
Because for the rest it is just as unsafe.
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The most important part is that using the
Optionalyou are explicilty telling the user of your API that they may receive a value, or they may not. And both cases are clearly usable and testable.That's basically the only use I see for using Optional, clear communication that you might not get anything.
Because for the rest it is just as unsafe.