On 5 March 2013 15:46, Simone Tripodi <simonetrip...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi again Gergo,
>
> patch looks OK to me, the problem we would have ATM is the backward
> compatibility, since there methods signature change.
>
> Is there anybody that can suggest how to handle that situation?

Create new methods which return long rather than int; deprecate the old methods.

e.g.

@Deprecated
public int getContentLength() { ... }

/**
* @since x.x
*/

public long getLongContentLength() { ... }
or
public long getContentLengthLong() { ... }
or
public long longContentLength() { ... }

etc.

> TIA,
> -Simo
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