[jira] [Commented] (TEXT-80) StrLookup API confusing

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ASF GitHub Bot commented on TEXT-80:
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Github user PascalSchumacher commented on the issue:

    https://github.com/apache/commons-text/pull/44
  
    I'm closing this as `StrLookup` will deprecated and replaced with `StringLookup` in the next release.


> StrLookup API confusing
> -----------------------
>
>                 Key: TEXT-80
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEXT-80
>             Project: Commons Text
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Etienne Neveu
>            Assignee: Pascal Schumacher
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 1.3
>
>
> [bayard: copying this from LANG-564]
> I don't see the point of having a generic type parameter on the StrLookup class, if it's not used anywhere. No method / field in StrLookup references this type parameter. IntelliJ IDEA itself reports a warning: "Type parameter 'V' is never used". Moreover, Java generics are not reified, so there is no reliable way to access the type parameter at runtime (and I don't see the point of doing that anyway...).
> While the Javadoc tries to clarify the purpose of a StrLookup, the unused type parameter is still confusing, and the client code has to un-necessarily specify type parameters. For example, I have to write:
> StrLookup<?> lookup = StrLookup.noneLookup();
> StrLookup<String> lookup2 = StrLookup.systemPropertiesLookup();
> StrLookup<Integer> lookup3 = StrLookup.mapLookup(integerMap);
> instead of
> StrLookup lookup = StrLookup.noneLookup();
> StrLookup lookup2 = StrLookup.systemPropertiesLookup();
> StrLookup lookup3 = StrLookup.mapLookup(integerMap);
> My best guess is that this type parameter was added when commons-lang was generified, because StringLookup.mapLookup() takes a generified Map. Doing this is not really needed, though: we could remove the <V> type parameter everywhere, and replace the StrLookup.mapLookup()'s Map<String, V> with a Map<String, ?> (which is the same as Map<String, ? extends Object>, but shorter).
> I guess it's too late to change this now, due to backward compatibility... But I thought I'd comment just in case it's still possible.



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