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David Leangen commented on FELIX-5335:
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Those are all very good arguments. I suppose that it comes down to precision
vs. convenience, because IIUC either way, the behaviour would have to be
documented in the API doc.
Since it is only a very minor convenience anyway, and the target audience is
technical people, I have no problem with choosing precision over convenience.
:-)
> Addition of copy() method to API
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>
> Key: FELIX-5335
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-5335
> Project: Felix
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Converter
> Reporter: David Leangen
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> Just to keep a record of this somewhere... here is the request I posted to
> the mail list.
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> bq. Is there a simple way to transform a DTO into an immutable value object?
> To put my question into context: on the bndtools list, I asked this question,
> and got this response Peter K.:
> bq.Not in enRoute and not in the new spec that was inspired by this service.
> In general you pass copies so they can do whatever they like with them.
> Fine. But I am not seeing a simple way of creating such copy. Is there a
> “clone” method of some sort, or do I just convert an object to another object
> of its own type? Like this:
> MyDTO copy = cnv.convert( dto ).to( MyDTO.class );
> If making copies is indeed how this service is intended to be used, it would
> be nice to have a more explicit method for this, maybe:
> MyDTO copy = cnv.copy( dto );
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