I think we should keep that deprecated in lang and go with plan discussed in below mail trail.
http://markmail.org/message/azxw4nai7fs2laas Regards, Amey ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gilles <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> Date: Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 7:40 PM Subject: Re: RandomStringUtils and RandomStringGenerator To: u...@commons.apache.org Hi. On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:49:38 -0700, Russell Bolles wrote: > Good afternoon, > > I recently happened to pick up commons-lang:3.6 and noticed that > RandomStringUtils was deprecated in favor of > commons-text:RandomStringGenerator. > > I work on a moderately sized Java service and a quick find usages in > IntelliJ shows that I have 452 usages of RandomStringUtils, mostly in my > tests. > > Was there any discussion of moving the RandomStringUtils class to > commons-text and preserving the API as it stands now? What benefits do we > get when throwing out the RandomStringUtils class altogether in favor a of > a fluent builder (i.e. RandomStringGenerator). > > I can't emphasize enough how useful it is to be able to create a random > string via a static method especially when writing unit tests. > Good news for you :-) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1346 Regards, Gilles > Thank you for your time. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
