Demonstrates suboptimal variable and method names. Copyright (c) 2012 Lampo Licensing, LLC and released under the MIT license

BadIdentifiers.java

public Address processData(String city) {
 
     Address ret = null;
     List<Address> list = getAddresses();
 
     for(Address obj : list) {
          if(obj.getCity().equals(city)) {
               if(ret == null) {
                    ret = obj;
               } else {
                    throw new RuntimeException("Found multiple matching addresses.");
               }
          }
     }
 
     return ret;
 
}