Best practice for returning multiple values in Java?

Question

Today I\'ve added a extra security check behind my login forms, to slow down brute force attacks. I\'ve got multiple login forms and made a nice easy to call function that d

Answer 1

Not sure about "best practice" but a pragmatic option is to return a Map? E.g.

myMap.put("result", "success");
myMap.put("usernameConfirmed", "bigTom");

return myMap;

Probably flies in the face of a million OO principles but I hear you re wanting to avoid a proliferation of result classes.

You could alternatively use Map and be stricter with type checks on stored objects: Strings, Booleans, Dates, etc.