The current implementation of XWiki#exist return false if there is any problem when trying to check the existence of the document. This is a very wrong logic as you simply have no idea if the document exist or not (could be a network problem, etc.) and this might cause a lot of problems if the failure is temporary and the result of this #exists call have an impact on something stored in a cache for example.
So I propose that we change the implementation of XWiki#exists to stop catching the exception. Adding a throws to a method does not change the method signature, so it’s not technically a binary compatibility problem, but of course it means that some code that was not expecting this method to fail might end up with an exception when #exist fails (which, honestly, will most probably fix more problems than it will cause).
WDYT ?