I am no expert, but if I had to take a guess (and I don't :-) ) I would go with historical flub. The getParameterValues() appears very early on in the servlet spec, possibly before Enumeration became en vogue. On the other hand, the actual object being returned is a set of String values, and since Java does not implement type specific collections yet, it may be clearer as is.
David M. Karr wrote:
I'm curious what the rationale was for certain collection return types in some servlet (2.3) specification methods. All of the ones I found in the spec return Enumeration, except for one, which returns an array of String. What was the rationale for the one oddball? I can see that all the others get a list of "names" and the odd one returns a list of "values", but I don't see how that would make a difference. These are the ones I found (I may have missed some): Enumeration ServletRequest.getAttributeNames() Enumeration ServletRequest.getParameterNames() Enumeration ServletConfig.getInitParameterNames() Enumeration HttpServletRequest.getHeaderNames() String[] ServletRequest.getParameterValues() -- =================================================================== David M. Karr ; Java/J2EE/XML/Unix/C++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; SCJP ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
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