Perhaps it belongs in Commons Lang?
Anything like this that you try to put together is going to blow up
really quickly, by the way (registering new converter types, etc.). I
don't see how having a few little helper methods in CSV is that big of
an issue, personally.
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Paul Benedict
<paulus.benedic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You might want to think of a conversion addon package using Common
> BeanUtils. That project is skilled at conversions from String and has
> pluggable capability to customize conversion types.
> On Aug 1, 2013 6:51 PM, "Paul Benedict" <pbened...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> 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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