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
>
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