Github user mridulm commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/569#issuecomment-42115677
I am still catching up on PR's and bugs.
Why was this changed ?
Hacky solutions based on string parsing of properties lead to fragility in
case of changes in future.
Since we are already depending on apache commons, makes sense to delegate
to that.
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