If we only had a project called commons-convert! I'm sure Mr. Benson could help us out using some of his Therian codebase (and his type parameter prowess).
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All: > > I recently added these CSVRecord APIs: getBoolean(String), getInt(String), > getLong(String), getBigInteger(String). > > Some people are OK with this, some consider this out of scope, some > consider it not necessary for 1.0, some -1, some are worried about feature > creep (default values, Calendar, Date, List, and so on), some think the > Javadoc should be clearer. > > At the very least I think we should document how to access or convert typed > values. We could: > > - Document the new APIs, or remove them AND: > - Document how to use another Commons API > - Document how to use another (non Commons) API > - Document how to do it all yourself > - Create a CSVRecrord wrapper class that contains all the APIs where the > implementation may or may not delegate to another Commons API. > > No matter what, it's pretty obvious that this conversion code is going to > exist somewhere, in the user's app, in [csv] or someplace else. > > We should make a plan such that if we do not provide this feature in 1.0, > we have a roadmap for our users. > > Gary > > -- > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second > Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
