[jira] Commented: (LANG-564) StrLookup API is confused

["Henri Yandell (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Henri Yandell commented on LANG-564:
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The class is for providing a Str, Str view on a Str, V storage. From the tests:

{code:java}
        Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>();
        map.put("number", new Integer(2));
        assertEquals("2", StrLookup.mapLookup(map).lookup("number"));
{code}

Based on that, the genercizing looks good to me (yeah I know I'm contradicting my previous comment, I hadn't dug into the previous code). I think a bit more javadoc explanation is in need but not a generics change.

> StrLookup API is confused
> -------------------------
>
>                 Key: LANG-564
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-564
>             Project: Commons Lang
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: lang.text.*
>            Reporter: Sebb
>             Fix For: 3.0
>
>
> The API for StrLookup is confused. The class has been partly genericised, but why?
> The Javadoc says the class is for looking up Strings which are indexed by Strings, and this agrees with the method lookup()
> Surely if the class is generic on <V>, the lookup() method should return V, not String?
> Does it make any sense for the class to return anything but a String? If not, then why is the class generic?
> If it does make sense, then lookup() should return V.

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