Tighten up a few places where we return null to callers who really never want to see nulls -- throw exceptions instead.

src/java/com/samskivert/jdbc/depot/BuildVisitor.java

@@ -342,10 +342,7 @@ public abstract class BuildVisitor implements ExpressionVisitor
 
             // handle the field-level @Computed annotation, if there is one
             FieldMarshaller fm = _types.getMarshaller(pClass).getFieldMarshaller(field);
-            if (fm == null) {
+
-                throw new IllegalArgumentException(
-                    "could not find marshaller for field: " + field);
-            }
             Computed fieldComputed = fm.getComputed();
             if (fieldComputed != null) {
                 // check if the computed field has a literal SQL definition

src/java/com/samskivert/jdbc/depot/DepotTypes.java

@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ package com.samskivert.jdbc.depot;
 
 import java.sql.SQLException;
 
-import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.HashSet;
@@ -96,7 +95,7 @@ public class DepotTypes
      */
     public String getTableName (Class<? extends PersistentRecord> cl)
     {
-        return _classMap.get(cl).getTableName();
+        return getMarshaller(cl).getTableName();
     }
 
     /**
@@ -107,6 +106,9 @@ public class DepotTypes
     public String getTableAbbreviation (Class<? extends PersistentRecord> cl)
     {
         if (_useTableAbbreviations) {
+            if (!_classIx.containsKey(cl)) {
+                throw new RuntimeException("Persistent class not known: " + cl);
+            }
             Integer ix = _classIx.get(cl);
             if (ix == null) {
                 throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown persistence class: " + cl);
@@ -118,28 +120,30 @@ public class DepotTypes
 
     /**
      * Return the associated database column of the given field of the given persistent class,
-     * or null if there is no associated marshaller, or if the field is unknown on the class, or
+     * throwing an exception if the record has not been registered with this object, or if the
-     * if the field does not directly associate with a column.
+     * field is unknown on the record.
      */
     public String getColumnName (Class<? extends PersistentRecord> cl, String field)
     {
-        DepotMarshaller dm = getMarshaller(cl);
+        FieldMarshaller<?> fm = getMarshaller(cl).getFieldMarshaller(field);
-        if (dm != null) {
+        if (fm == null) {
-            FieldMarshaller<?> fm = dm.getFieldMarshaller(field);
+            throw new RuntimeException(
-            if (fm != null) {
+                "Field not known on class [field=" + field + ", class=" + cl + "]");
-                return fm.getColumnName();
-            }
         }
-        return null;
+        return fm.getColumnName();
     }
 
     /**
-     * Return the {@link DepotMarshaller} associated with the given persistent class, or null
+     * Return the {@link DepotMarshaller} associated with the given persistent class, if it's
-     * if the class has not been previously registered with this object.
+     * been registered with this object, otherwise throw an exception.
      */
     public DepotMarshaller getMarshaller (Class<? extends PersistentRecord> cl)
     {
-        return _classMap.get(cl);
+        DepotMarshaller marsh = _classMap.get(cl);
+        if (marsh == null) {
+            throw new RuntimeException("Persistent class not known: " + cl);
+        }
+        return marsh;
     }
 
     /**

src/java/com/samskivert/jdbc/depot/MySQLBuilder.java

@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ public class MySQLBuilder
         {
             _builder.append("match(");
             Class<? extends PersistentRecord> pClass = match.getPersistentRecord();
-            FullTextIndex fts = _types.getMarshaller(pClass).getFullTextIndex(match.getName());
+            String[] fields =
-            String[] fields = fts.fieldNames();
+                _types.getMarshaller(pClass).getFullTextIndex(match.getName()).fieldNames();
             for (int ii = 0; ii < fields.length; ii ++) {
                 if (ii > 0) {
                     _builder.append(", ");