Re: [Rsslibj-developer] suggested modifications

[Joseph S. <acr...@io...>]

Joe Shelby wrote:
> 2) in addition to addItem() (which, using the List interface does an
> append), there should be an insertItem that adds it to the front,
> following normal RSS for blog standards.  Right now that can be done by
> doing "getItems().add(0, new Item(...))", but to me that's risky.

And a risk involved just happened to me.

currently, the internal List is created lazily, and the result is that if
you call getList().add(...) before a single item is added through the Channel's
own methods, you get a NullPointerException.

Joe
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