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Gary Gregory commented on CODEC-169:
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This is obviously broken in concept since you cannot tell an error result from
an equal result.
I see these options:
- Document it better, leave the code as is
- Change the code to thrown an unchecked exception that wraps the
EncoderException. Then you can tell error vs equal. I am not sure this is
suitable for 1.x instead of 2.0.
In addition: Redo it in the context of generics in 2.0.
> What should StringEncoderComparator do with non-Comparable encoded params?
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> Key: CODEC-169
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CODEC-169
> Project: Commons Codec
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Sebb
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> If the StringEncoderComparator is created with a StringEncoder that can
> generate a non-Comparable encoded version, then the compare() method will
> currently fail with ClassCastException.
> What should it do?
> Return 0 as for EncoderException?
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