On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@joda.org>wrote:
> 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. > I was thinking that the class would also contain at least one toString method, for example toString(1000, MemoryUnit.BYTES) where MemoryUnit is an Enum. Useful for logging. Gary > 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 > > -- Thank you, Gary http://garygregory.wordpress.com/ http://garygregory.com/ http://people.apache.org/~ggregory/ http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
