That's great that your management supports open sourcing this code.
Personally, I'd be very interested in seeing it.
I had an immediate need for a transformations (data conversion) package
(e.g. Date<->String, ArrayList -> Sorted ArrayList, ...), so I started
work on one recently.
I'm putting the finishing touches on the first (very simple) version.
I completely agree that validation and data conversion (what I'm calling
transformation) should be tied together at a higher level.
I see transformation as a separate package that is not dependent on
validation, but could be used by validation.
In some cases, the act of doing the transformation may be all the
validation that is needed (e.g. if we could convert the String to
an Integer, that's good enough). I could see scenarios where
you'd want to do some validation before transformation (e.g.
by pattern matching on the String), and some cases where you'd
want to do validation after transformation (e.g. making sure
an integer that's been converted is within some range).
I need to get this transformations package finished up by Monday, so
I'll finish up this first revision and post it to this list.
I'm hoping all of these efforts in the validation/mapping/data
conversion
space can be consolidated soon.
Frangois Rey wrote:
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> You may remember some of my earlier postings about a mapper framework that we use as
>a validation framework. I now have the support in my company to make it open source.
>However, I first would prefer to:
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