Re: [lang] ObjectUtils.toString(Object) should not be deprecated

2014-02-21 Thread sebb
I say leave the deprecation. If it really turns out to be a major issue, the deprecation can always be removed later. Even Sun did that at least once. On 21 February 2014 14:02, Benedikt Ritter wrote: > I've thought about this again. Our goal here was to remove all the methods > that are availa

Re: [lang] ObjectUtils.toString(Object) should not be deprecated

2014-02-21 Thread Benedikt Ritter
I've thought about this again. Our goal here was to remove all the methods that are available in Jdk7. The problem is that with Objects.toString(Object) is that it prints out "null" for null references, while ObjectUtils.toString(Object) returns the empty string. We had two choices: - keep ObjectU

Re: [lang] ObjectUtils.toString(Object) should not be deprecated

2014-02-21 Thread Benedikt Ritter
I'm about to cut 3.3 today. Do we want to revert this change? 2014-02-21 3:25 GMT+01:00 Gary Gregory : > I think you have a point. > > Gary > > Original message > From: Christoph Schneegans > Date:02/20/2014 20:45 (GMT-05:00) > To: dev@commons.apache.org > Subject: [lang] Ob

RE: [lang] ObjectUtils.toString(Object) should not be deprecated

2014-02-20 Thread Gary Gregory
I think you have a point.  Gary Original message From: Christoph Schneegans Date:02/20/2014 20:45 (GMT-05:00) To: dev@commons.apache.org Subject: [lang] ObjectUtils.toString(Object) should not be deprecated Hello there! I have been using the Commons Lang library for abo