Too many detours in COSDictionary convenience methods

[Johannes Koch]

Hi,

I think there are too many detours in some of the COSDictionary 
convenience methods. E.g.

getInt( COSName key )
-> getInt( COSName key, int defaultValue )
   // create String from COSName
-> getInt( String key, int defaultValue )
-> getInt( String[] keyList, int defaultValue )
-> getDictionaryObject( String[] keyList )
   // create COSName from String
-> getDictionaryObject( COSName key )


Wouldn't it be easier to just do the following?

getInt( COSName key )
-> getDictionaryObject( COSName key )


Same with getLong(COSName):

getLong( COSName key )
-> getLong( COSName key, long defaultValue )
-> getLong( String key, long defaultValue )
-> getLong( String[] keyList, long defaultValue )
-> getDictionaryObject( String[] keyList )
-> getDictionaryObject( COSName key )

This could be reduced to:

getLong( COSName key )
-> getDictionaryObject( COSName key )


getFloat(COSName) has only one detour:

getFloat( COSName key )
-> getFloat( COSName key, float defaultValue )
-> getDictionaryObject( COSName key )

This could be reduced to:

getFloat( COSName key )
-> getDictionaryObject( COSName key )

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Johannes Koch
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