What methods should go into a java.util.Objects class in JDK 7?

[Joe Darcy]

Martin Buchholz wrote:
> Google would like to contribute implementations of the methods below.
> Here's a webrev:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/openjdk7/compare/
>   

Wherever these compare methods go, into the N wrapper classes or into 
java.util.Compare, I think the instance method compareTo should be 
rewritten in terms of the new static compare.  In particular,

 422     public int compareTo(Short anotherShort) {
 423         return this.value - anotherShort.value;
 424     }

should get replaced with

 422     public int compareTo(Short anotherShort) {
 423         return compare(this.value, anotherShort.value);
 424     }

This consolidates the comparison logic in a single method per type and 
reuses the existing implementation tests.

(Later in JDK 7, a set of "unsignedCompare" methods are possible 
additions to the platform too.)

> We have tests (not yet included) but they would need to be jtreg-ified.
> Is there any junit support yet for jtreg?
>   

No.

Once the home of the new methods is determined, I'll file a ccc request 
so these changes can go back after any additional testing is settled.

Thanks,

-Joe

> Martin
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 16:54, Stephen Colebourne<scolebourne at joda.org> wrote:
>   
>> 2009/9/9 Joe Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
>> The following are missing methods on Integer/Long:
>>
>> 7) Compare two primitives.
>> int Byte.compare(byte value1, byte value2)
>> int Short.compare(short value1, short value2)
>> int Integer.compare(int value1, int value2)
>> int Long.compare(long value1, long value2)
>> Safely returns the comparison (-1/0/1) indicator for two primitives.
>> (These methods already exist on Float/Double).
>>