Code review

pom.xml

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
     <protobuf.version>2.5.0</protobuf.version>
     <jackson.version>2.2.2</jackson.version>
     <wire.version>1.0.1</wire.version>
-	<simplexml.version>2.7.1</simplexml.version>
+    <simplexml.version>2.7.1</simplexml.version>
 
     <!-- Test Dependencies -->
     <junit.version>4.10</junit.version>

retrofit-converters/simplexml/src/main/java/retrofit/converter/SimpleXMLConverter.java

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ public class SimpleXMLConverter implements Converter {
   private static final String CHARSET = "UTF-8";
   private static final String MIME_TYPE = "application/xml; charset=" + CHARSET;
 
-  private Serializer serializer = null;
+  private final Serializer serializer;
 
   public SimpleXMLConverter(Serializer serializer) {
     this.serializer = serializer;
@@ -45,10 +45,6 @@ public TypedOutput toBody(Object source) {
       serializer.write(source, osw);
       osw.flush();
       return new TypedByteArray(MIME_TYPE, bos.toByteArray());
-    } catch (final NullPointerException e) {
-      throw new AssertionError(e);
-    } catch (IOException e) {
-      throw new AssertionError(e);
     } catch (Exception e) {
       throw new AssertionError(e);
     } finally {

retrofit-converters/simplexml/src/test/java/retrofit/converter/SimpleXMLConverterTest.java

@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ public class SimpleXMLConverterTest {
 	private final Converter converter = initConverter();
 
 	private static Converter initConverter() {
-
 		Format format = new Format(0, null, new HyphenStyle(), Verbosity.HIGH);
 		Persister persister = new Persister(format);
 		return new SimpleXMLConverter(persister);