Calling new String("string constant") is an anti-pattern

[swpalmer]

This:

aws-lambda-developer-guide/sample-apps/java-basic/src/main/java/example/Handler.java

Line 19 in b6cd7d3

String response = new String("200 OK");

should simply be:

String response = "200 OK";

and of course there should be some sort of documentation for how the response is used. It is very odd to see what looks like raw HTTP status codes returned as a string.

[devlinbd2]

Thank you for raising this issue. I have corrected the code. Regarding, the string being returned, Lambda depends on the user (or service) that invokes the function to define what is acceptable to return from the function. Reusing well-understood HTML codes seems like a reasonable strategy.