Missing Values
A Programming Pattern |
Prof. David Bernstein |
Computer Science Department |
bernstdh@jmu.edu |
double
values and
a sentinel like -1
for missing valuesnull
can be used as a sentinel for all
reference typesDouble
or Integer
)valueOf()
method to construct the
wrapper object, otherwise leave it null
null
doubleValue()
or intValue()
method to retrieve the value
total = 0.0; for (int i = 0; i < data.length; i++) { if (data[i] == null) { total += defaultValue; // Initialized elsewhere } else { total += data[i].doubleValue(); } } average = total / (double) data.length;
missing = false; total = 0.0; for (int i = 0; i < data.length; i++) { if (data[i] == null) { missing = true; break; // No reason to continue iterating } else { total += data[i].doubleValue(); } } if (missing) { result = null; } else { result = Double.valueOf(total / (double) data.length); }