On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:59:19 GMT, Nir Lisker <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Refactoring of all `StringConverter`s and their tests. General notes:
>> * The documentation language has been unified and `null` parameter rules 
>> have been documented.
>> *  Tests have been cleaned up in the vein of 
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/pull/1759 and unneeded `@BeforeAll`s were 
>> removed.
>> * Internal fields were made `private final` to guarantee immutability.
>> 
>>  Incremental commits are provided for easier reviewing:
>> 
>> ### Parent classes
>> * `StringConverter`: updated documentation
>> * `BaseStringConverter`: a new internal class that implements repeated code 
>> from converter implementations and serves as an intermediate superclass. It 
>> does empty and `null` string checks that are handled uniformly, except for 
>> `DefaultStringConverter`, which has a different formatting mechanism.
>> 
>> ### Primitive-related converters
>> * All primitive (wrapper) converters also document their formatting and 
>> parsing mechanism since these are "well-established".
>> 
>> ### Format converter
>> * Checked for `null` during constriction time to avoid runtime NPEs.
>> * There is no test class for this converter. A followup might be desirable.
>> * A followup should deprecate for removal `protected Format getFormat()` (as 
>> in [JDK-8314597](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8314597) and 
>> [JDK-8260475](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8260475)).
>> 
>> ### Number and subclasses converters
>> * The intermediate `locale` and `pattern` fields were removed (along with 
>> their tests). The class generated a new formatter from these on each call. 
>> This only makes sense for mutable fields where the resulting formatter can 
>> change, but here the formatter can be computed once on construction and 
>> stored.
>> * The only difference between these classes is a single method for creating 
>> a format from a `null` pattern, which was encapsulated in the 
>> `getSpecializedNumberFormat` method.
>> * The terminally deprecated `protected NumberFormat getNumberFormat()` was 
>> removed. Can be split to its own issue if preferred. In my opinion, it 
>> shouldn't exist even internally since testing the internal formatter doesn't 
>> help. The only tests here should be for to/from strings, and these are 
>> lacking. A followup can be filed for adding more conversion tests.
>> 
>> ### Date/Time converters
>> * Added a documentation note advising users to use the `java.time` classes 
>> instead of the old `Date` class.
>> * As with Number converters, only the `dateFormat` field was kept, which is 
>> created once on construction instead of on each...
>
> Nir Lisker has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge 
> or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in 
> by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains 11 additional commits since 
> the last revision:
> 
>  - Merge master
>  - Fix typo
>  - Removed super() invocations
>  - review comments 2
>  - review comments 1
>  - LocalDate/Time converters
>  - Date/Time converters
>  - Number and subclasses converters
>  - Format converter
>  - Primitive-related converters
>  - ... and 1 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/compare/f75fa093...a030ce58

modules/javafx.base/src/main/java/javafx/util/converter/CurrencyStringConverter.java
 line 37:

> 35: 
> 36:     /// Creates a `CurrencyStringConverter` that uses a formatter/parser 
> based on the user's [Locale].
> 37:     public CurrencyStringConverter() {}

very, very minor: I wish you wouldn't do `{}` - if anything needs to be 
inserted, it widens the diff.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1880#discussion_r2543067295

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