[jdom-interest] re: Stirring up Trouble

[Brett McLaughlin]

Robin Meade wrote:
> 
> Brett McLaughlin wrote:
> snip
> >
> > getContent(boolean preserveWhitespace);
> >
> > is perfectly intuitive.
> >
> > But what does
> >
> > getContent()
> >
> > do?
> snip
> 
> Wouldn't
> 
>   getContentTrimmed();
> 
> be more readable than
> 
>   getContent(true);

No - because you would then have two methods doing essentially the same
thing. If users are really unwilling to read the Javadoc, then they can
use trim().

> 
> For the latter, I need to consult the JavaDoc to know what's going on.

No offense, but you shouldn't be using an API if you aren't willing to
read the instructions ;-)

-Brett

> 
> As for
> 
>   getContent();
> 
> I would assume it returned the untrimmed content.
> 
> Robin Meade
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