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[jira] Created: (LANG-424) Improve Javadoc for StringUtils class

Improve Javadoc for StringUtils class
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                 Key: LANG-424
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-424
             Project: Commons Lang
          Issue Type: Improvement
    Affects Versions: 2.4
            Reporter: Denise Fernandez


In the StringUtils class it would be helpful if in the following methods, the Javadoc is improved:

substringAfter
substringAfterLast

I think there should be better documentation in the case where the separator string is not found in the search string: It should be explicity noted that in this case an empty string will be returned.

In the following methods:

substringBefore
substringBeforeLast

It should be documented that if the separator is not found in the search string, the search string is returned.

I realise there are examples for both these cases, but I think that they should be separately and explicity documented as special cases. I had expected that substringAfterLast would return the original string if the separator was not found in it and this caused me some trouble.



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[jira] Closed: (LANG-424) Improve Javadoc for StringUtils class

Posted by "Henri Yandell (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-424?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Henri Yandell closed LANG-424.
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    Resolution: Fixed

Javadoc added. Not sure why it behaves that way, but probably not worth trying to change now.

svn ci -m "Adding javadoc per LANG-424 to point out what happens in substringLast/substringBefore methods when substring is not found" src

Sending        src/java/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils.java
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 749151.


> Improve Javadoc for StringUtils class
> -------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LANG-424
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-424
>             Project: Commons Lang
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 2.4
>            Reporter: Denise Fernandez
>             Fix For: 3.0
>
>
> In the StringUtils class it would be helpful if in the following methods, the Javadoc is improved:
> substringAfter
> substringAfterLast
> I think there should be better documentation in the case where the separator string is not found in the search string: It should be explicity noted that in this case an empty string will be returned.
> In the following methods:
> substringBefore
> substringBeforeLast
> It should be documented that if the separator is not found in the search string, the search string is returned.
> I realise there are examples for both these cases, but I think that they should be separately and explicity documented as special cases. I had expected that substringAfterLast would return the original string if the separator was not found in it and this caused me some trouble.

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[jira] Updated: (LANG-424) Improve Javadoc for StringUtils class

Posted by "Henri Yandell (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-424?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Henri Yandell updated LANG-424:
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    Fix Version/s: 3.0

> Improve Javadoc for StringUtils class
> -------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LANG-424
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-424
>             Project: Commons Lang
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 2.4
>            Reporter: Denise Fernandez
>             Fix For: 3.0
>
>
> In the StringUtils class it would be helpful if in the following methods, the Javadoc is improved:
> substringAfter
> substringAfterLast
> I think there should be better documentation in the case where the separator string is not found in the search string: It should be explicity noted that in this case an empty string will be returned.
> In the following methods:
> substringBefore
> substringBeforeLast
> It should be documented that if the separator is not found in the search string, the search string is returned.
> I realise there are examples for both these cases, but I think that they should be separately and explicity documented as special cases. I had expected that substringAfterLast would return the original string if the separator was not found in it and this caused me some trouble.

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