[Geotools-devel] DbaseFileWriter null objects

[Roy B. <roy...@b3...>]

List,

A little question: Why are some null objects written as a not NULL object?
A Date object with value 'null' is set to 'new Date()' and a Integer (or Number) with value 'null' is set to 'new Integer(0)'.

Why not set the 'null' values to a empty string?
..........
private String fieldString(Object obj, final int col) {
    if (obj==null)
        return NULL_STRING;
...........

Roy