I'd like to hold it off til after the release.
Just add to the TODO and let it lie. Else we'll be doing this all over the place :) Mainly I just want to get the null/NPE/IAE thing agreed upon and then the main release pushed out. While we're an API project, so not quite like many other projects, there is a lot to be said for release-early/release-often, and we've been pretty bad on that. Hen On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Steven Caswell wrote: > I'd like to add the following methods to StringUtils: > > String defaultString(Object obj) - behaves the same as > defaultString(String), invoking toString() on the obj to return the > string, or blank if obj is null > String defaultString(Object obj, String defaultString) - same as > defaultString(String, String), invoking toString() on the obj to return > the string, or the defaultString value if obj is null > > A specific use case: I do lots of debug logging, many times logging > results from various method calls, some of which may not be null-safe. > In cases where a method return could be null, I need to check the return > for null and replace what would be logged with some placeholder string > (i.e., "(null)". So the following code would be replace: > > debugLog.debug( "MyClass.myMethod() = " + ((MyClass.myMethod() == null) > ? "(null)" : MyClass.myMethod().toString() + ")" ); > > with > > debugLog.info( "MyClass.myMethod() = " + > StringUtils.defaultString(MyClass.myMethod(), "(null")); > > I could use StringUtils.defaultString now if the result were a string, > but for non-String objects where is no equivalent. I don't want to use > StringUtils.defaultString(MyClass.myMethod().toString(), "(null)") > because I'll get an NPE on the .toString() and defaultString will never > have a chance. > > Would this hold up the imminent release? If so I'll defer to afterward. > > Steven Caswell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
