--- Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On 8/1/06, Stephen Colebourne > > I think that a key issue with its failure first > time around was scope. > > Personally, I would be quite comfortable to see > [convert] only support > > conversion between Objects and Strings and vice > versa. ie. a very simple > > component. > > > > IMHO, anything else leads into much more difficult > design choices, and > > leads beyond the range of commons. For example, I > know that there is at > > least one sf project doing Object to Object > conversions already (but I > > can't find a reference). > > > > Can we KISS? > > +1. > > That's the one we usually need, Object->String and > String->Object. > Becomes a much simpler interface then. > > Hen >
Indeed, but beanutils already has String->Object, we're only missing the other half. But it is also true that the approach for conversion in beautils is strict (meaning: "123.45" converted to int yields an Exception, perhaps a lenient configurable version will do ?) ------------------------------------------- Ing. Andres Almiray Jaramillo http://jroller.com/page/aalmiray -- What goes up, must come down. Ask any system administrator. There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't. To understand recursion, we must first understand recursion. ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? La mejor conexión a Internet y <b >2GB</b> extra a tu correo por $100 al mes. http://net.yahoo.com.mx --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
