[jdom-interest] DataConversionException javadoc and other issues

[Jason Hunter]

Hmm, you seem to be arguing both sides here.

I think the reason we have DCE is because att.getBooleanValue() doesn't
make much sense to throw an NFE.

-jh-

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> 
> The Javadoc for the DataConversionException constructor (see
> http://www.jdom.org/docs/apidocs/org/jdom/DataConversionException.html)
> is very misleading. It has nothing to do with missing attributes, and
> everything to do with a string not being able to be converted to a number.
> 
> I was just going to submit a patch, but then I began to wonder whther we
> still needed this exception class at all. It is only thrown, as near as
> I can see, by four methods in Attribute: getIntValue(), getFloatValue(),
> getDoubleValue(), getLongValue. If getIntValue() or getFloatValue(),
> etc. fail the natural response is a NumberFormatException. Would it be
> better to throw that and delete DataConversionException completely?
> 
> The big difference is that DataConversionException is checked and
> NumberFormatException is not. I think that this case  does satisfy the
> criterion for checked excepitons that, (following Bloch) " the
> exceptional condition cannot be prevented by proper use of the API /and/
> the programmer using the API can take some useful action once confronted
> with the exception"
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
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