I'd say creating a new class for one method is a bad idea. HumanUtils might work, although it could scope creep.
Best approach is to try and think of other similar utilities, ie. look in Ant. Stephen On 2 June 2011 15:52, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:50 AM, James Carman > <ja...@carmanconsulting.com>wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > FWIW, this type of code lives in Ant as long >> > org.apache.tools.ant.util.StringUtils#parseHumanSizes(String). IMO it >> > would be fine to copy/adapt this method into lang3 in perhaps >> > StringUtils or NumberUtils. No harm in creating MemUtils as James >> > suggested, but unless we can think of other things to go there I don't >> > know if it can be justified. >> > >> >> I would also suggest a method that takes a long and spits out a string >> with the biggest denomination (kb, mb, gb, etc.) it can find to >> display it. >> >> If it doesn't go in its own class, where else would you put it? >> Perhaps StringUtils or NumberUtils? Maybe even SystemUtils, since >> there are memory-related methods in System? >> > > I like MemUtils so far. > > Gary > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> > > > -- > Thank you, > Gary > > http://garygregory.wordpress.com/ > http://garygregory.com/ > http://people.apache.org/~ggregory/ > http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
