None of these methods document exceptions if the conversion fails (eg, not
an integer). Also, how strict is the conversion? Can "x" represent boolean
false or is that an exception?
On Aug 1, 2013 9:00 AM, "Gary Gregory" <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to note this CSVRecord addition I am planning on:
>
> public Boolean getBoolean(String name) {
> public boolean getBooleanPrimitive(String name)
>
> The method listings are at the end of this message.
>
> What I want to note here is that these are conversion methods and that the
> record still stores the values internally as Strings. I do not want to
> Javadoc the conversion in order to give us flexibility over representation
> if we decide to change it in the future (caching or whatnot).
>
> I wanted to post here in CTR mode before I or others add APIs like
> getLong() and getLongPrimitive(). Since this is a library, I do believe we
> should end up providing such APIs at the record level for primitives.
>
> /**
> * Returns a value by name.
> *
> * @param name
> * the name of the column to be retrieved.
> * @return the column value, or {@code null} if the column name is not
> found
> * @throws IllegalStateException
> * if no header mapping was provided
> * @throws IllegalArgumentException
> * if the record is inconsistent
> * @see #isConsistent()
> */
> public Boolean getBoolean(String name) {
> String s = this.get(name);
> return s != null ? Boolean.valueOf(s) : null;
> }
>
> /**
> * Returns a value by name.
> *
> * @param name
> * the name of the column to be retrieved.
> * @return the column value, or {@code false} if the column name is not
> found
> * @throws IllegalStateException
> * if no header mapping was provided
> * @throws IllegalArgumentException
> * if the record is inconsistent
> * @see #isConsistent()
> */
> public boolean getBooleanPrimitive(String name) {
> return Boolean.parseBoolean(this.get(name));
> }
>
> Gary
>
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