I got no reply for my second email. (Or did I miss any.)
Much of the ideas I have here are about minor functionality in some of the basic classes (such as lang.StringUtils etc). I would be glad to know how to go about it. I mentioned one as an example, perhaps it would be preferred if I mention all of them at one go? Since I am new to this group, I am not very familiar with your preferred way. Curious to know.
Cheers,
Ash
Hello again,
Adding to my earlier email I just sent out, I wish to give an example here, of some of the ideas I have.
The concept of a "naught" String.
A String is naught if it is either 'null' or is the literal "null".
I have often encountered this situation in my JSP project where a particular
parameter is passed in
as x=null, and I need to insert code everytime saying if(x == null ||
x.equals("null"))Perhaps others have encountered a similar situation. I thus propose the following functionality in the org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils class:
StringUtils.isNaught(String str)
And more such to go. Waiting for some feedback. Thanks, Ash
-----Original Message----- From: ASHWIN Suresh Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 20:47 To: 'Jakarta Commons Developers List' Subject: new functionality in some of the commons classes
Hello all,
I am new to the list, and am here after my recent (and really exciting) discovery of the existence of this whole treasure of day-to-day usage code in the name of the Commons project.
I would like to propose/contribute some new functionality to some of the classes (mostly simple stuff). Do let me know the procedure for this. If there is a standard document which explains this, which I missed, please give me a pointer to it.
Thanks,
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