RE: [Jython-dev] Question about Strings and java.util.regex

[Jeff E. <JEm...@lg...>]

Finn,

Thanks for pointing out the pre-1.4 incompatibility.  I'll work
up a dynamic version later today.

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Finn Bock
To: Jeff Emanuel
Cc: 'Mike GARCIA'; 'jyt...@li...'
Sent: 3/25/03 3:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Jython-dev] Question about Strings and java.util.regex

[Jeff Emanuel]

> PyString.java has this line (line 658 in the Jython 2.1 source)
> in the method __tojava__:
> 
>     if (c == String.class || c == Object.class || c ==
Serializable.class)
> 
> If you change it to this, it should work for you:
> 
>         if (c == String.class || c == CharSequence.class || 
>             c == Object.class || c == Serializable.class)
> 
> I would suggest submitting a patch to the jython sourceforge site
> www.sf.net/projects/jython.

This is also the change that I would expect to work (I haven't tested 
it) but your change would tie jython to jdk1.4. That is clearly not 
acceptable.

So a patch would have to be more dynamic in nature, perhaps by loading 
the CharSequence class within a try .. catch clause and only attempt to 
load the class when the jdk version number is above 1.4.

A patch that gets all this right so that it also works with jdk1.1 
applets will indeed be welcome.

regards,
finn