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Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 10:59:49 -0400
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Subject: Re: [LANG] support for k, M suffices when parsing numbers
From: Gary Gregory <garydgregory@gmail.com>
To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org>
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On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne@joda.org>wrote:

> I'd say creating a new class for one method is a bad idea. HumanUtils
> might work, although it could scope creep.
>
> Best approach is to try and think of other similar utilities, ie. look in
> Ant.
>

I was thinking that the class would also contain at least one toString
method, for example toString(1000, MemoryUnit.BYTES) where MemoryUnit is an
Enum. Useful for logging.

Gary


> Stephen
>
>
> On 2 June 2011 15:52, Gary Gregory <garydgregory@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:50 AM, James Carman <
> james@carmanconsulting.com>wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Matt Benson <gudnabrsam@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > FWIW, this type of code lives in Ant as long
> >> > org.apache.tools.ant.util.StringUtils#parseHumanSizes(String).  IMO it
> >> > would be fine to copy/adapt this method into lang3 in perhaps
> >> > StringUtils or NumberUtils.  No harm in creating MemUtils as James
> >> > suggested, but unless we can think of other things to go there I don't
> >> > know if it can be justified.
> >> >
> >>
> >> I would also suggest a method that takes a long and spits out a string
> >> with the biggest denomination (kb, mb, gb, etc.) it can find to
> >> display it.
> >>
> >> If it doesn't go in its own class, where else would you put it?
> >> Perhaps StringUtils or NumberUtils?  Maybe even SystemUtils, since
> >> there are memory-related methods in System?
> >>
> >
> > I like MemUtils so far.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> >>
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