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Subject: RE: new project proposal: Type Conversion Library
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:53:42 -0500
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Thread-Topic: new project proposal: Type Conversion Library
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From: "Shapira, Yoav" <Yoav.Shapira@mpi.com>
To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org>


Howdy,


>Just firing up random thoughts here (drilled down into my head a few
>inches), but suppose you could use your private TypeConverter, then
>you could
>
>1) Again, provide a converter for configurations from String,
>ConfigurationEntry, or whatever, to the user's desired type.  Say
>foo.properties:
>component.factory=3Dsome.package.with.Factory

It's not that I need many converters but would rather keep them in the=
ir
own classes.  It's that I don't need many converters at all.  Like
everyone else, I've had to use valueOf/parseInt/toArray/asList every n=
ow
and then, mostly to deal with data type differences from 3rd party
libraries.  But not much, certainly not enough to come up with a speci=
al
library for it.  Don't mistake this for a strong -1 vote.  I see why y=
ou
want it, I just haven't had a need for it, so I wanted to see your
reasoning -- thanks for sharing it ;)

Yoav Shapria


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