[jira] [Created] (LANG-1382) Provide method to generate random numbers without range restriction for all numeric types

["Karl Richter (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Karl Richter created LANG-1382:
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             Summary: Provide method to generate random numbers without range restriction for all numeric types
                 Key: LANG-1382
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1382
             Project: Commons Lang
          Issue Type: New Feature
            Reporter: Karl Richter


`RandomUtils` only allows to generate random numbers of different numeric types (`byte`, `short`, `double`, etc.) within the range 0 (inclusive) and the maximum value of the respective type. It'd be nice if there were methods to create random numbers for the range between the minimal and the maximal value for all numeric types.

I'm aware of workarounds like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27976857/how-to-get-random-number-with-negative-number-in-range, but they're not tested and require quite some thinking which can be avoided (which is afaik one of the many motivations for the Apache commons libraries).

If such methods already exist they should be definitely linked in the Javadoc of `RandomUtils`.



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