Thanks for your reply. I agree. The only piece missing is that NumberFormat extends Format which does have the fomat(Object obj) method.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/text/Format.html I was hoping to avoid code changes en-masse, but thanks for the suggestions if it comes to that. Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: Jarkko Viinamäki-2 [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 4:46 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Reflection not handling Floats correctly > > > Hello Tim, > > I'm not sure why this worked with 1.3.1. If I'm not mistaken, > when the context has Double object in it, the NumberFormat > method format(double) is invoked since with reflection > parameters are always passed as objects instead of primitives > and in that case conversion is possible. However, when the > context contains a Float, there is no matching method since > the NumberFormat class has method with signature > > StringBuffer format(Object number, StringBuffer toAppendTo, > FieldPosition > pos) > > and since the two other parameters are missing, Velocity > can't find a match. > Velocity does not attempt to convert floats up to doubles > since the conversion produces errors. > > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/text/NumberFormat.html > > Alternatives: > > 1. Use the NumberTool provided by Velocity Tools project. > http://velocity.apache.org/tools/devel/javadoc/org/apache/velo > city/tools/generic/NumberTool.html > > 2. Wrap the NumberFormat class inside your own class that > handles Floats correctly (reinventing the wheel). > > > > Kuntz, Tim wrote: > > > > I upgraded to Velocity 1.6.2 from 1.3.1 and have run into an issue > > with our existing code/templates. > > > > The NumberFormat class has format(double ..), format(long ..), and > > format(Object ..) methods. The format(Object ..) method should be > > invoked but instead is treated as a missing method. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Reflection-not-handling-Floats-correctly -tp27279916p27285049.html > Sent from the Velocity - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
