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Emmanuel Bourg commented on CONFIGURATION-422:
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I'm not sure supporting octal values is a good idea. If people have padded
their integer values with 0 this will break their configurations.
However it might be interesting to support the updated number syntax to come in
Java 7 (binary literals and underscores in numbers)
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2009-March/000929.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2009-March/001208.html
> Configuration.getInt() should define its accepted inputs, and should also
> accept octal
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> Key: CONFIGURATION-422
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONFIGURATION-422
> Project: Commons Configuration
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Type conversion
> Reporter: david cogen
> Priority: Minor
>
> I can find no information about the format of the string that
> Configuration.getInt(String) accepts. I have determined by experimentation
> and examining the source that it accepts decimal integers, and hex integers
> if preceeded by "0x". This should be explained.
> Also, it is customary for functions which accept decimal and hex to also
> accept octal. A string with leading "0" should be parsed as octal.
> This should apply to getByte(), getShort(), and getLong() as well.
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