On 01/07/06, Andrew Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Agree. But there are always exceptions. Some "toString" methods have to contain some key information as spec required, for example, the size or index.
Can you give examples of where the spec specifically mandates the return values of either size or index?
BTW, are these toString information (RI) copyrighted?
I don't believe they can be copyrighted. However, the only way to tell if the RI and Harmony return the same results would be to execute both and compare them, and I believe that such reverse engineering would be outside the remit of Harmony. I doubt that the TCK would test for such features exactly, without specifying them. For example, the AbstractCollection and AbstractMap does specify what it should return: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/AbstractCollection.html#toString() http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/AbstractMap.html#toString() I think you'd find it difficult to explain why (in all cases) toString() returned exactly the same value as the RI without such detailed comments as to their format :-) Alex. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
