Hi Henri, The past week has been insane, but I can commit to putting together the [convert] proposal this week since it shouldn't take long.
> If there's no sql.Date converter, it then finds a util.Date converter. > Converts and promptly dies. Inheritence on the fromClass side may still > make sense. For most people, this basically means Object->String. Why does it die, and what do you mean by 'die'? Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henri Yandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 12:57 PM Subject: Re: [beanutils] some ideas > > Okay, I suck on doing things 'tonight' :) > > Have been playing with the code though, as it's fun stuff. How are you > feeling about drafting up the proposal etc Matt? > > One problem I've hit is that inheritence is kind of useless. You'll just > get a ClassCast in most usages: > > Converter converter = ConverterRegistry.getConverter(String.class, > java.sql.Date.class); > > preparedStatement.setDate(1, converter.convert(java.sql.Date.class, > someString) ); > > If there's no sql.Date converter, it then finds a util.Date converter. > Converts and promptly dies. Inheritence on the fromClass side may still > make sense. For most people, this basically means Object->String. > > Hen > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Henri Yandell wrote: > > > > > I have a [convert] sitting on my laptop that I can commit into the > > sandbox tonight. It's just an extraction of tests/src from beanutils. I > > wasn't sure if that was the right way to go. > > > > Hen > > > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Sgarlata Matt wrote: > > > > > +1. > > > > > > Is someone going to step up and create the new [convert] sandbox component? > > > I am not a committer, so I don't think I can help here. I would like to > > > volunteer to draft the mandate for the project, which would basically > > > summarize the issues discussed in this thread. > > > > > > Matt > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Henri Yandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 12:53 AM > > > Subject: Re: [beanutils] some ideas > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Sgarlata Matt wrote: > > > > > > > > > From: "Henri Yandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > > Can anyone think of any others? > > > > > > > > Something that would need deciding is what to do when the 'from' and the > > > > 'to' classes are the same. Should a String->String converter be looked > > > > for, or should it optimise it away. > > > > > > > > I suspect that there just shouldn't be any identity converters > > > > pre-registered, but people can always put them in if they wish to. > > > > > > > > Hen > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
