On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Adrian Crum < adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com> wrote:
> Have you considered recommending Commons Convert? > No: it is unreleased. Are you willing to help polish it to 1.0? Yes: I'd like to eat our own dog food. Gary > > I agree that Java data type conversion is outside the scope of CSV. > What about a CSVRecord wrapper that delegates to [convert]? Gary > -Adrian > > > On 8/3/2013 8:36 AM, Gary Gregory 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 >> >> > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > dev-unsubscribe@commons.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- 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
