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Henri Yandell closed LANG-420.
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Resolution: Won't Fix
Resolving again as WONTFIX.
I definitely don't see a need to rename the method from toString(). It could be
argued that there could be an alias method of asString() to provide a
workaround, but I don't see why ObjectUtils.toString is such a terrible
workaround.
> Rename ObjectUtils.toString() to asString().
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> Key: LANG-420
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-420
> Project: Commons Lang
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 2.3
> Reporter: Stephen Kestle
> Priority: Trivial
> Fix For: 3.0
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> With Java 5 static method inlining, methods do not require class qualifying
> *unless* the class already has the method.
> For this reason, ObjectUtlis.toString() cannot be inlined to toString(), as
> Object has a toString() method.
> It would be nice for it to have a name that could be statically imported,
> such as asString. This would follow the naming convention of Arrays.asList()
> Note that this DOES NOT need a java 5 version of lang.
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