On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Prasanna Santhanam <t...@apache.org> wrote:
> > <rant>To my mind, we overuse String throughout the codebase when we > > should either be using richer types provided by the Java runtime > > (e.g. java.net.URI) or defining custom value objects. In addition > > to better levering the type checking of the compiler and potentially > > exploiting polymorphism, rich value objects allow business rules to > > be neatly encapsulated -- DRYing out the code base and allowing them > > to reliably unit tested.</rant> > > +1 to the rant. String is over-(ab)-used. Sometimes even to do XML. > Happy to help moving all that if there's a plan you guys work out > Sunday. Please bring it back to the lists. John and Prasanna, You are being an architect, excuse my Dutch. Of course you are right, for CloudStack 5.0. In the meantime I have real users with real customers that don't care if I use File or my own custom Directory object or String(Buffer). So +1 for your sunday proposal but 'duhuh' for your rant. I still need to backport my patch to 4.1 and 4.2 of CLoudStack, with or without the apache.org bit. Had to get that of my chest. regards, Daan
