If think later (in 2025 :-) you just make interface ThreadPredicate extend java.util.function.Predicate.
Kristian 2015-04-12 13:14 GMT+02:00 Benedikt Ritter <benerit...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > there is currently a discussion on github about the addition of a low level > utility class which helps to retrieve Threads [1]. The latest proposal is to > implement a predicate based approach for filtering threads [2]. My opinion > is, that we should not add such an API at all, because we would have to > revert it anyway, when we upgrade [lang] to Java 8. Further more I don't > think it is a good idea to add a generic Pedicate interface to [lang]. This > will only cause confusion for users already using Java 8. So if we really > want to add predicate based API in ThreadUtils, it should IMHO Look like this: > > Collection<Thread> ThreadUtils.findThreads(ThreadPredicate filter) > > public interface ThreadPredicate { > boolean test(Thread); > } > > Later we can change this to: > > Collection<Thread> > ThreadUtils.findThreads(java.util.function.Predicate<Thread> filter) > > public interface ThreadPredicate extends java.util.function.Predicate<Thread> > > I'd like to hear what others think about this. > > Regards, > Benedikt > > [1] https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/pull/61 > [2] https://github.com/salyh/commons-lang/pull/1 > > Send from my mobile device > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org