Duration isPositive missing?

[Roger Riggs]

Hi Steven,

Yes, it does seem like an oversight.  There are some other alternatives 
that might be considered.
     .toMillis() > 0    // Might throw an exception for very large or 
small durations.

I create an issue: 8171382 java.time.Duration missing isPositive method 
<https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8171382>

To look at it for the next release.

Roger


On 12/16/2016 12:54 PM, Steven Schlansker wrote:
> Hi core-libs-dev,
>
> My coworker and I were just puzzling over the seemingly trivially missing
> java.time.Duration#isPositive
>
> There are already "isNegative" and "isZero" -- but for isPositive the best
> we came up with were awful things like
>
> !isZero() && !isNegative()
> !.negate().isNegative()
> .compareTo(Duration.ZERO) > 0
>
> but all of these feel way worse than a simple isPositive method.
> Can you shed some light as to why this is missing?
>
> Thanks!
> Steven
>