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ConvertUtils enhancements
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ConvertUtils enhancements
------- Additional Comments From apacheBugzilla@AMammenT.cotse.net 2003-05-19 17:00 -------
At least for (1) above, it's already possible to register other converters.
ConvertUtils.register is provided exactly for this purpose.
For (2) it would be great to check superclasses. I'm not sure how useful it
is to have a "convert" method present. That means a class would have to know,
apriori, all the other classes into which it could be converted. Diffucult to
keep uptodate as new needs come into play - almost always leading to a mix
between converters and convert methods. If there are known conversions at
instantiation, the class itself could declare converters (perhaps event
itself) and register the new converters.
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