----- Original Message ----- From: "Henri Yandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 10:39 PM Subject: [beanutils] some ideas
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Solutions could be either:
1) Improve the system for the mapping converters so it is many-to-many.
2) Create a hierarchy structure. A ConvertUtilsBeansConverter could be plugged in to handle a class, and would contain its own batch of Converters.
Any ideas?
I think the Converter interface is fine, but could perhaps use some better documentation and examples (in the JavaDoc... the converters in the distribution seem more general-purpose than will be the converters a user needs to create). I do like the idea of adding a new ConvertUtils.register(Converter, Class from, Class to) method.
this (and related issues) have come up before. i've thought about this quite a lot and i'm in favour of making the conversion pluggable strategy.
this would allow both different and more sophisticated conversion algorithms to be created without breaking backwards compatibility. i don't realistically have the time to go about the creation of new implementations right now but i can certainly point people in the right direction if they want to go down this route.
BTW stephen has talked before about creating a separate component that would provide sophisticated solutions to the issue posed by conversion. it might be a good idea to involve him in any design discussions. i now also that ted (of struts fame) is interested in the conversion problem so there may be enough momentum to at least think about creating a dedicated component.
- robert
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