<i18n dev> RFR: JDK-8285932 Implementation of JEP 430 String Templates (Preview) [v21]

[Jim Laskey]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 22:10:14 GMT, Roger Riggs <rriggs at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Jim Laskey has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Wrong line separator
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> src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/template/StringTemplate.java line 273:
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>> 271: 
>> 272:     /**
>> 273:       * Combine one or more {@link StringTemplate StringTemplates} to produce a combined {@link StringTemplate}.
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> The description should be more specific about how the lists of fragments and values are combined.
> For example, is each StringTemplate well formed and have the required string and value counts.
> (Or when combined, is it only the case that the total number of strings and values meet the n+1/n requirement.
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> I'm not sure this API point pulls it weight in the API.

I think this javadoc was updated since.  What is happening here is non-trivial.  The use cases are primarily composing documents from several parts. Ex. an SQL PreparedStatement. You don's want to convert to string before processing, so concatenation won't do.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10889