Re: [lang] MethodUtils

2002-11-02 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 05:40 AM, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, robert burrell donkin wrote: snip but that sounds like the right way to write the API. one of the weaknesses of MethodUtil's is that the API grew rather than being designed. I have a very strong piece

Re: [lang] MethodUtils

2002-11-02 Thread Stephen Colebourne
I agree, with Craig's position. So far I have looked only at the FieldUtils. What I found was that 1.3 reflection was badly broken, and 1.4 still had a few oddities. The problem lay with the getField() method. getDecleredField() was fine. Thus the only way I can see to replicate hard coded method

[lang] MethodUtils API: invokeMethod, invokeExactMethod

2002-11-02 Thread robert burrell donkin
invokeMethod, invokeExactMethod are poorly defined. the java doc comments are very loose about their expected behaviour. i think that methods should be replaced by a single series of methods that work as if it were they were compiled ie. use the rules in the JLS. for example invoke('method',

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Re: [lang] MethodUtils

2002-11-02 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 01:41 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote: snip my main issue with the current MethodUtils API is that it not precise in it's definition of expected behaviour. the API does not say 'this methods finds conforms to the JLS spec'. since these methods can be called

Re: [lang] MethodUtils API: invokeMethod, invokeExactMethod

2002-11-02 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 01:53 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote: snip I want to keep the same naming pattern accross the three classes, and although I'm not wedded to these precice names, they do seem to work quite well. using the word 'exact' would cause confusion with the existing

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Re: [digester] bug fix release?

2002-11-02 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 12:05 AM, Scott Sanders wrote: snip #3893 multiple element body parts problem - i think that in this case the method gets called more than once. so, i'd say the behaviour is reasonable. the comment from emmanual berg

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