On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 4:05 PM, Gilles <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:51:43 -0500, Matt Benson wrote: >> >> I have often thought about creating a utility class that allows me to >> write >> skeletal code that still compiles but will remind me to go back and finish >> it. This is a weird meta area of programming, but here are some basic >> usage >> examples: >> >> Foo foo = Todo.todo(); //returns null >> Bar bar = Todo.todo(THROWING_EXCEPTION); //throws NotImplementedException >> Baz baz = Todo.todo(RETURNING_NULL, "create a Baz"); //returns null and >> prints a message to System.err >> >> I would also think it a good (if odd) idea to make the whole class >> deprecated so that its use is flagged in tools, etc. >> >> Does the community think this code would be suited to the commons-lang >> component? > > > Perhaps "Commons Testing". > IIUC, such calls are not meant to appear in released code.
I would recommend against commons testing. i would assume that component would be a dependency with a test scope in most projects, making it impossible to use it in the main code. Regards, Bindul > > Regards, > Gilles > >> >> Matt > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
