[jdom-interest] DataConversionException javadoc and other issues

Bradley S. Huffman hip at a.cs.okstate.edu
Sun May 4 12:40:38 PDT 2003


Elliotte Rusty Harold writes:

> Last May, Jason objected that NumberFormatException was inappropriate 
> for getBooleanValue. There's no BooleanFormatException. The 
> java.lang.Boolean class interprets all non-true strings as false. I 
> don't think we should go that far, but even if we keep 
> DataConversionException the JavaDoc needs to be fixed.

IMHO, there should be only String getValue(). Wasn't it at about the same
time there was a thread about getFormatDate() and other convenience *Value()
methods which lead to the obvious question/discussion where do you stop with
the get*Value() methods.

Brad



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