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Carsten Ziegeler commented on SLING-12785:
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If we argue that in most cases toString() is not overwritten and uses name()
then there is no point in changing :)
If we argue that toString() is overwritten, then this would be a breaking
change - which will come as a surprise.
As [~enorman] points out, if you want to use toString() you can do that with a
more specific expression.
Taking all of this together, we should not change
> Change default coercion from Enum to String to leverage toString() instead of
> name()
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> Key: SLING-12785
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-12785
> Project: Sling
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: HTL
> Affects Versions: Scripting HTL Runtime 1.2.6-1.4.0
> Reporter: Konrad Windszus
> Priority: Major
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> In SLING-5825 support for conversion from Enum to String was added to HTL.
> However the implementation uses {{Enum.name()}} instead of
> {{Enum.toString()}}. This is unusual and should be changed.
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