[Building Sakai] K1 - uitils rationalization?

[Anthony Whyte]

+1

We could target this work for the upcoming Boston conference hackathon.

Cheers,

Anth


On Jun 5, 2009, at 5:08 AM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:

> Good idea.
> +1
> -AZ
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:05 AM, David  
> Horwitz<david.horwitz at uct.ac.za> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I was looking at the utils classes in the K1 kernel and it strikes me
>> that we could do with some rationalization in this area to achieve:
>>
>> 1) Remove duplicated functionality
>> 2) Remove custom Sakai code that has the same functionality as  
>> standard
>> java classes (specifically Apache commons libraries)
>>
>>
>> Some of the ones I noticed:
>>
>>
>> 1) EmptyIterator - present in commons-collections
>> 2) Web.escapeJsQuotes & Validator.escapeJsQuoted() - duplicate  
>> code, in
>> commons-lang StringEscapeUtils, one marked deprecated and buggy  
>> (KNL-69)
>> 3) Validator.escapeSql in commons-lang StringEscapeUtils
>> 4) Validator.esapceJavascript in commons-lang StringEscapeUtils
>> 5) Validator.checkEmailLocal in commons-validator
>> 6) StringUtils.split - "Like jdk1.4's String.split..." the javadoc  
>> says
>> it all this is now in the jvm
>> 7) StringUtils.trimToNull & StringUtils.trimToEmpty
>>
>> This is just a quick survey and I'm sure there more. I Propose that  
>> we
>> start by marking all these as deprecated and point people the the
>> commons implementation. Thoughts?
>>
>>
>> David
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