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Amey Jadiye commented on TEXT-96:
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[~greenth] Thinking of adding some simple and easy to use tools/methods in 2.x
release.
> Convenience methods needed for RandomStringGenerator
>
>
> Key: TEXT-96
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEXT-96
> Project: Commons Text
> Issue Type: Improvement
>Affects Versions: 1.1
>Reporter: Peter Phillips
>Priority: Minor
>
> {{RandomStringGenerator}} is extremely verbose compared to the deprecated
> commons.lang3 {{RandomStringUtils}}.
> Previously we could write:
> {code:java}
> RandomStringUtils.randomNumeric(10)
> {code}
> to generate a numeric string whereas this now has become:
> {code:java}
> new RandomStringGenerator.Builder().withinRange('0', '9').build().generate(10)
> {code}
> although in practice we would then also use static imports too.
> The {{randomAlphabetic}} conversion is even more verbose:
> {code:java}
> new RandomStringGenerator.Builder().withinRange('A', 'z').filteredBy(new
> CharacterPredicate() {
> @Override
> public boolean test(int codePoint) {
> return codePoint >= 'a' || codePoint <= 'Z';
> }
> }).build().generate(10))
> {code} and at that point I lost enthusiam with trying to replicate
> {{randomAlphanumeric}}.
> I don't think the average java developer would understand what a code point
> is in the first place so then trying to get our automation testers to use the
> new API to implement random alphanumeric character generation would be
> difficult.
> I therefore suggest that commons-text should have a copy of
> {{RandomStringUtils}} which can even delegate to {{RandomStringGenerator}} or
> alternatively convenience static methods for the common use cases.
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