On Sep 5, 2011, at 23:34, Henri Yandell <flame...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:10 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3 September 2011 05:37, Henri Yandell <flame...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm less concerned with the 115 errors, unless they're all as grievous
>>> as the StringUtils one - ie) the method causing trouble is not the
>>> only one broken.
>>>
>>> If the error happened when calling stripAccents, that would be
>>> workable; but having all of StringUtils unavailable is very painful.
>>> One option would be to move the code out of the static initializer and
>>> make it lazy when stripAccents is first called - leading to only
>>> callers of stripAccents when the JDK 6 class is unavailable to suffer
>>> pain.
>>
>> I thought we'd already fixed that by catching the extra Exception?
>>
>> I already suggested localising the error display to the stripAccents method.
>
> Sorry - not operating at 100% last week.
>
>>> I thought we could simplify things by simply making the java6Available
>>> flag be a real test for Java 6, but Android seems very weird there. Is
>>> Android going to force us to stay on the EOL Java 5, or is it Java 6
>>> compatible? IIUC it reports itself as 0.9, which we've declared as
>>> equivalent to JDK 1.5.
>>
>> Are you sure that is the issue?
>> Surely the Android problem is that we check for the sun class but
>> don't handle all possible errors?
>> So the class does not load; it cannot use the Java6 method even if it exists.
>
> I'm very confused between Android and GAE :)
>
>>> That relates to another (simple) solution - move to Java 6 :)
>>
>> Or capture Exception for both the java6 and sun tests; report the
>> exception(s) if neither is available when required.
>
> I like this. Capture the exception in the static initializer and then
> throw a new runtime exception in stripAccents that refers to said
> exception. Perhaps an IllegalStateException("blah", originalException)
> ?
Sounds less painful than the current code. Give it a try.
Gary
>
> Hen
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