On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Jörg Schaible
<joerg.schai...@scalaris.com>wrote:

> Gary Gregory wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 2012-04-16, <ggreg...@apache.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> > [IO-324] Add Charset sister APIs to method that take a String charset
> >> name.
> >>
> >> The new methods cause problems for people who pass in null for the
> >> charset as they want the platform's system default.  The compiler
> >> doesn't know which of the writeStringToFile methods to pick if the third
> >> param is null.
> >>
> >
> > You are correct. See the release notes:
> >
> > Compatibility with 2.2 and 1.4:
> > Binary compatible: Yes.
> > Source compatible: No, see the rare case in
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-318.
> > Semantic compatible: No, see the rare case in
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-318.
> >
> > There are two solutions if you want to use the latest [io], as noted in
> > the Jira:
> >
> > - type-cast the charset to String to Charset, or
> > - use the API that does not have a charset.
>
> We could add a writeStringToFile() method without parameter. No need for a
> null value, no need for the cast.
>

The API is already there :)

Gary

>
> - Jörg
>
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