[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-274?page=comments#action_12423455 ] Andres Almiray commented on LANG-274: -------------------------------------
Henry, There is a facade, ConvertUtils, that works very similar to its counterpart on beanutils. All the converters extend the Converter interface, but that is just a marker interface, the convert method of each implementation is intended to be invoked by reflection or by direct type manipulation, because the primitive converters return a primitive value, not a wrapper. The array converters depend on the primitive ones. Another advantage of the primitive converters is that they accept Number, String and they respective wrapper as inputs. In the end, a user just needs to know about ConverterUtils and that Converter implementations hava a convert( Object value ) method (by convention) that returns the correct value. I believe the other project is commons-convert, still on sandbox since 2005. I'll be very happy to provide a patch using the json-lib code as a starting base. An option that comes to mind is refactor the current toPrimitive/toObject methods so they delegate the work to the specific arrayConverter. And maybe add a general array conversion for Number[] and String[]. Please let me know what you think of this approach. > Support for multidimensional array conversion > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: LANG-274 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-274 > Project: Commons Lang > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Andres Almiray > Priority: Minor > > Only unidimenisional array conversions are supported by ArrayUtils. I > recently had the new for this and seeing that Lang does not support the > feature, I hacked it myself (please see json-lib's <a > href="http://json-lib.cvs.sourceforge.net/json-lib/json-lib/";>cvs</a>/<a > href="http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/apidocs/net/sf/json/converter/package-frame.html";>javadoc</a> > for reference). I think that this feature may be useful to others and that > json-lib is not the correct project for it. > This issue is at the boundaries between lang and beanutils. Lang allows the > conversion of an unidimensional array between wrappers and primitives. > BeanUtils allows conversion from String to unidimensional arrays. As > BeanUtils is more fragile then Lang I thought this was the correct place to > post the issue. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
