Dear Developers, A very good day to all of you.
We are a team of researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Currently, we are studying how crowdsourcing can help developers to build a higher quality software. One of the subjects that we used is log4j. From our experiment, we identified an area in a particular file "ThrowableProxy.java" that can be converted to a List<Type>. Using List<Type> is more preferred as it is much more flexible and easier to maintain. The following identified method is able to convert to a List<Type>: 1) private ThrowableProxy[] toSuppressedProxies(final Throwable thrown) The above method used ThrowableProxy array, and can be converted to a List<ThrowableProxy> instead. Our references from the Stack Overflow community pointed out that List<Type> is preferred over a Type array. The Stack Overflow references to this are at " http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8689246"; and " http://stackoverflow.com/questions/716597";. By converting the Type array to a List<Type>, this will make the code more flexible and easier to maintain. We hope that you can consider this and let us know about any thoughts. This will be a tremendous help to us in our continuing research to building a better software and to help the open-source community as a whole. Please do not hesitate to contact me @ [email protected] if there are any queries. Thanks a lot and have a great week ahead! -- Warmest Regards, Fuxiang
