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Returning empty values

See original GitHub issue

From https://github.com/cloudevents/sdk-java/issues/119 and https://github.com/cloudevents/sdk-java/pull/108#discussion_r411193730:

What technique should we use, around the sdk, to notify the user of an eventual empty return value?

Optional getters
Have an annotation called @Nullable which notifies the user of an eventual null return value
Just explicit in the Javadoc that a method can return null

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slinkydevelopercommented, Apr 28, 2020

That said, the same annotation can definitely be used in other modules +1

I would love to, to keep consistency across our modules

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bsideupcommented, Apr 23, 2020

@slinkydeveloper I would agree with you if not the usages tab of that dependency where you will find a ton of major Java projects 😉

Anyway, are you willing to provide a PR to add them to api package?

Sure! Expect a PR soon

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