Hi! I'm a long time user (and big fan) of commons.lang.Validate because it's a very neat pattern for getting stable software modules.
I'm PMC member on Apache OpenWebBeans and currently also writing the maven-scm-provider-jgit (JGIT is a native Java implementation of GIT). Since jgit-core (the part of EGIT we use for the maven-scm-provider-jgit) is BSD and Shawn likes to have not too much external dependencies, I started writing my own little Validate helper class and had a hopefully good idea which imho would also be a good extension to commons.lang.Validate: A main problem on validation is the message creation which costs a lot of String operations and therefor also garbage collection. I've now seen that the latest version in SVN has an additional object parameter for a few functions which addresses this problem. My proposal now goes even further but requires java-5 since it uses ellipsis notation. If msgObject[0] is a String java.text.MessageFormat will be used for creating the failure message, e.g. Validate.notNull(nullInt, "testMessageText Integer={0} btw! and Integer2={1}.", new Integer(42), new Integer(43)); example for isTrue with message construction: /** * Validate that b is <code>true</code> * * @param b boolean to validate * @param msgObjects additional Objects added as text message to the InvalidArgumentException */ public static void isTrue(boolean b, Object... msgObjects) { if (!b) { throw new IllegalArgumentException(getMessage(msgObjects)); } } /** * private helper function to create an error message from the given Objects * If the first object in msgObjects is of type {...@code String} then * {...@code MessageFormat} will be used to format the output message. * * @param msgObjects * @return concatenated String representation of all the objects */ private static String getMessage(Object... msgObjects) { if (msgObjects.length > 0 && msgObjects[0] instanceof String) { MessageFormat form = new MessageFormat((String) msgObjects[0]); Object[] params = new Object[msgObjects.length - 1]; System.arraycopy(msgObjects, 1, params, 0, msgObjects.length - 1); return form.format(params); } else { StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("Validation failed: ["); for(int i = 0; i < msgObjects.length; i++) { if (i > 0) { sb.append(' '); } sb.append(msgObjects[i]); } sb.append(']'); return sb.toString(); } } I've tested those functions against 'old' Validate handling to ensure that there are no performance side effects with Java ellipsis handling, and the performance win is huge [1]. The ellipsis Version only takes < 5% of the time of the 'old' handling. WDYT? a.) Is the implementation ok? b.) Will there be a java-5 only version of commons.lang in the near future? c.) Imho we could replace the 1-parameter versions with the proper ellipsis functions and we are still compile compatible. But I'm not sure if we stay binary-compatible (needs to be tested). I wrote a Validate class this way for jgit-core [2] but also have to like this features in our owns commons.lang.Validate if possible! txs and LieGrue, strub [1] http://pastebin.com/m2cf887a9 [2] http://github.com/sonatype/JGit/blob/2ab3a576fa67145d6a9f66efd7437c52d567eb68/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/util/Validate.java --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org