[CIShell-SVN] SF.net SVN: cishell:[966] trunk/core/org.cishell.utilities/src/org/cishell/ utilities/StringUtilities.java

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Revision: 966
          http://cishell.svn.sourceforge.net/cishell/?rev=966&view=rev
Author:   pataphil
Date:     2009-10-16 19:38:51 +0000 (Fri, 16 Oct 2009)

Log Message:
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* Improved documentation of StringUtilities.interpretObjectAsString.
* Added TODOs to reflect considerations by Joseph and Russell.  (No time to do them now.)
* Reviewed by Joseph.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/core/org.cishell.utilities/src/org/cishell/utilities/StringUtilities.java

Modified: trunk/core/org.cishell.utilities/src/org/cishell/utilities/StringUtilities.java
===================================================================
--- trunk/core/org.cishell.utilities/src/org/cishell/utilities/StringUtilities.java	2009-10-16 19:02:20 UTC (rev 965)
+++ trunk/core/org.cishell.utilities/src/org/cishell/utilities/StringUtilities.java	2009-10-16 19:38:51 UTC (rev 966)
@@ -67,12 +67,20 @@
 	 * Prefuse table columns are typed.  If a column contains a null cell,
 	 *  Prefuse types that column as an array type, and it then represents
 	 *  null values with arrays of length 0.
+	 * To handle this, this method returns:
+	 *  null if the object is actually null or array of length 0;
+	 *  just the first element of the array; or
+	 *  the result of the object's toString method.
 	 */
+	// TODO: Rename to interpretAsString.
+	// TODO: Move these things to TableUtilities.
+	// TODO: Handle all cases, including all primitive array types and
+	//  perhaps primitive box types (i.e. Integer).
 	public static String interpretObjectAsString(Object object) {
 		if (object == null) {
 			return null;
 		} else if (object instanceof String[]) {
-			String[] objectAsStringArray = (String[])object;
+			String[] objectAsStringArray = (String[]) object;
 			
 			if (objectAsStringArray.length == 0) {
 				return null;


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