rayfarias56
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8 years ago Additional Google'ing yields possible arguments against Java.util's Optional: https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/08/optional-broken/
An informed decision should be made when/if this issue gets addressed.
Having a function return null, as is done several times in this code base, is often error prone (see: Using and Avoiding Null Explained). I had first avoided using Optional, because I was under the impression Guava would need to be imported and I was having dependency issues prior to using Maven. Yet, I've also just found out that Java8 has Optionals.