I've thought about this again. Our goal here was to remove all the methods that are available in Jdk7.
The problem is that with Objects.toString(Object) is that it prints out "null" for null references, while ObjectUtils.toString(Object) returns the empty string. We had two choices: - keep ObjectUtils.toString(Object) because it provides a different fall back for null references - put the "burden" onto users to use Objects.toString(obj, "") I personally think it's better to use the standard library, even though you have to pass an additional parameter. 2014-02-21 11:36 GMT+01:00 Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org>: > I'm about to cut 3.3 today. Do we want to revert this change? > > > 2014-02-21 3:25 GMT+01:00 Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>: > > I think you have a point. >> >> Gary >> >> -------- Original message -------- >> From: Christoph Schneegans <christ...@schneegans.de> >> Date:02/20/2014 20:45 (GMT-05:00) >> To: dev@commons.apache.org >> Subject: [lang] ObjectUtils.toString(Object) should not be deprecated >> >> Hello there! >> >> I have been using the Commons Lang library for about two years, but this >> is my first post to the mailing list. >> >> Starting with release 3.2, ObjectUtils.toString(Object) was deprecated in >> favour of java.util.Objects.toString(Object), see >> < >> http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/javadocs/api-3.2/org/apache/commons/lang3/ObjectUtils.html >> >. >> >> As the Javadoc comment correctly points out, to preserve the current >> behavior, one cannot simply replace ObjectUtils.toString(foo) with >> Objects.toString(foo), but would need to call Objects.toString(foo, ""), >> which is less concise and less readable. >> >> I agree that other methods in ObjectUtils, namely >> - toString(Object, String) >> - equals(Object, Object) >> - hashCode(Object) >> - hashCodeMulti(Object...) >> are now superfluous and rightfully deprecated, but why deprecate a useful >> method when there is no direct substitute? >> >> >> Regards, >> Christoph >> >> -- >> <http://schneegans.de/> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> > > > -- > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > http://github.com/britter > -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter
