Elliotte Rusty Harold created IO-846:
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Summary: Undeprecate RandomAccessFileInputStream constructors,
deprecate the builder
Key: IO-846
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-846
Project: Commons IO
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Streams/Writers
Reporter: Elliotte Rusty Harold
The Builder pattern is actively negative here. It introduces at least one
runtime failure mode (not setting the underlying file) that is a compile time
error with a constructor. The constructors are simpler, more obvious, and less
error prone.
The builder pattern is **not** preferred to constructors in all cases. It is a
non-standard idiom outside the Java language that is appropriate when:
1. There are a large number of arguments.
2. At least two of the arguments have the same type so there is a real risk of
swapping them.
3. Any combination of arguments is allowed.
All three of those conditions are false in this case.
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