On Feb 15, 2006, at 14:23, Jeremias Maerki wrote:
Why did you discard my suggestion about PropertyTokenizer? Is there
something wrong with that? I think it would be a more general
solution.
Oh, sorry, it's not really about 'discarding'... It just seemed more
'proper'.
Allow me to explain: The way I understand the Properties API, a null
is simply never meant to make it into the PropertyParser/
PropertyTokenizer. As a last resort, the whole chain of calls
starting at PropertyList.get() should ultimately return the default
value if a value cannot be obtained by any other means (inheritance,
shorthands and the like). This default value is, I admit, undefined
for a few shorthands. Setting their default value to an empty string
avoids a null from being handed over to PropertyParser.
Which solution is better? Gosh, I wish Finn were online now to share
some insights...
Cheers,
Andreas
