[PATCH] Jikes 1.13 doesn't compile RequestUtil

[Matthew L Daniel]

Jikes 1.13 has become REALLY picky about type casting, and the switch of a
byte against char constants really irks Jikes.  Oh that all bugs were this
easy. :-)

  -- /v\atthew
-- 
Matthew L Daniel    Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Wizard              There might be a law against it by that time.
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diff -u -r1.13 RequestUtil.java
--- catalina/src/share/org/apache/catalina/util/RequestUtil.java        2001/01/30 
19:40:19     1.13
+++ catalina/src/share/org/apache/catalina/util/RequestUtil.java        2001/03/30 
+05:27:04
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@
  *
  * @author Craig R. McClanahan
  * @author Tim Tye
+ * @author Matthew L Daniel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
  * @version $Revision: 1.13 $ $Date: 2001/01/30 19:40:19 $
  */
 
@@ -377,7 +378,7 @@
      * <strong>IMPLEMENTATION NOTE</strong>:  URL decoding is performed
      * individually on the parsed name and value elements, rather than on
      * the entire query string ahead of time, to properly deal with the case
-     * where the name or value includes an encoded "=" or "&" character
+     * where the name or value includes an encoded "=" or "&amp;" character
      * that would otherwise be interpreted as a delimiter.
      *
      * NOTE: byte array data is modified by this method.  Caller beware.
@@ -399,7 +400,9 @@
             String value = null;
             while (ix < data.length) {
                 byte c = data[ix++];
-                switch (c) {
+                // This cast is because Jikes 1.13 is getting REALLY picky
+                // about types.
+                switch ((char)c) {
                 case '&':
                     value = new String(data, 0, ox, encoding);
                     if (key != null) {