What do I return if the return type of a method is Void? (Not void!)

Question

Due to the use of Generics in Java I ended up in having to implement a function having Void as return type:

public Void doSomething() {
    //..         


        

Answer 1

If, for obscure reasons, you MUST use this type, then indeed returning null seems to be a sensible option, since I suppose return value will not be used anyway.
The compiler will force you to return something anyway.
And this class doesn't seem to have a public constructor so new Void() is not possible.