From: Frank Maritato <frankmarit@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:50:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: just check for null as opposed to catching NullPointerException...
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just check for null as opposed to catching NullPointerException...

git-svn-id: https://lwes.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lwes/lwes-java/trunk@493 a2f82657-cdd2-4550-bd36-68a8e7111808
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diff --git a/src/main/java/org/lwes/util/EncodedString.java b/src/main/java/org/lwes/util/EncodedString.java
index c6bf99d..e1966fd 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/lwes/util/EncodedString.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/lwes/util/EncodedString.java
@@ -17,40 +17,39 @@ public class EncodedString {
 	private CharacterEncoding myEncoding;
 
 	public static String bytesToString(byte[] bytes, CharacterEncoding enc) {
-		String ret = null;
+		if (bytes == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
 		try {
-			ret = new String(bytes, enc.getEncodingString());
+			return new String(bytes, enc.getEncodingString());
 		} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
 			throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown Encoding");
-		} catch (NullPointerException e) {
-			return null;
 		}
-		return ret;
 	}
 
-	public static String bytesToString(byte[] bytes, int offset,
-			int length, CharacterEncoding enc) {
-		String ret = null;
+	public static String bytesToString(byte[] bytes, int offset, int length, CharacterEncoding enc) {
+		if (bytes == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
 		try {
-			ret = new String(bytes, offset, length, enc.getEncodingString());
+			return new String(bytes, offset, length, enc.getEncodingString());
 		} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
 			throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown Encoding");
-		} catch (NullPointerException e) {
-			return null;
 		}
-		return ret;
 	}
 
 	public static byte[] getBytes(String string, CharacterEncoding enc) {
-		byte[] ret = null;
+        if (string == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
 		try {
-			ret = string.getBytes(enc.getEncodingString());
+			return string.getBytes(enc.getEncodingString());
 		} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
 			throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown Encoding");
-		} catch (NullPointerException e) {
-			return null;
 		}
-		return ret;
 	}
 
 	public EncodedString(String string, CharacterEncoding enc) {