Jukka Zitting created OAK-184:
---------------------------------
Summary: Allow PropertyState.getValues() to work on single-valued
properties
Key: OAK-184
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-184
Project: Jackrabbit Oak
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: core
Reporter: Jukka Zitting
Assignee: Jukka Zitting
Currently the {{PropertyState}} contract specifies that an
{{IllegalStateException}} gets thrown if a single-valued property is accessed
as a multi-valued one (and vice versa).
This leads to cumbersome if statements in code that simply wants to go through
all the values of a property. To avoid that complexity it would be useful if,
instead of throwing an exception, the {{getValues()}} method simply returned an
iterable containing the one value of a single-valued property. A client that
wants to explicitly check that a property really is multi-valued can still do
so simply enough by calling the {{isArray()} method.
A somewhat similar case can be made also for {{getValue()}} on a multi-valued
property, but that's a bit trickier so let's leave it outside the scope of this
issue.
--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
