March 22, 2006

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Java Quiz

Bonus points to anyone who knows what the results of this will be without running it or looking at the documentation. ;-) 
    public void testTrue() {
        String str = "true";
        boolean expected = true;

        assertEquals("not what you expected?", expected, Boolean
            .getBoolean(str));
    }

    public void testFalse() {
        String str = "false";
        boolean expected = false;

        assertEquals("not what you expected?", expected, Boolean
            .getBoolean(str));
    }
For anyone interested, here's the documentation. Posted by jim at March 22, 2006 05:36 PM
Comments

isn't reading the documentation cheating? After reading the documentation does anybody else think this function is in the wrong spot?

Posted by: Kibbee at March 22, 2006 08:03 PM

I agree... and I think that the name sucks wrt what it actually does... It would be good if they just made another method that does that same thing and depreciate getBoolean().

Posted by: Jim at March 22, 2006 10:12 PM

You could probably just deprecate this function, and use Boolean.parseBoolean(System.getProperty(str)).
I don't really see that you'd need to use this function all that often, and even if you did, then the solution I mentioned would be much more clear to other programmers as to what you were actually trying to accomplish.

Posted by: Kibbee at March 23, 2006 08:33 AM
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