[ovirt-devel] [ENGINE] thoughts about LinqUtils

[Yair Zaslavsky]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Allon Mureinik" <amureini at redhat.com>
> To: "Moti Asayag" <masayag at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs at redhat.com>, devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 10:53:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] [ENGINE] thoughts about LinqUtils
> 
> IMO, we have too many classes that do the same (useless) thing -
> org.ovirt.engine.core.utils.linq.LinqUtils and
> org.ovirt.engine.core.common.utils.ListUtils, which both have no place in
> oVirt-engine.
> Why not scrap both of them, upgrade commons-collections to the modern 4.0 and
> use org.apache.commons.collections4.CollectionUtils which has all of their
> functionality, fully-tested, and maintained by someone else?

Regarding upgrade to 4.0 - IMHO there was some packaging issue.
I think Yevgeny Zaspitsky raised the issue at the past.

But yeah, if there is no issue there, I'm in favor.


> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Moti Asayag" <masayag at redhat.com>
> > To: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs at redhat.com>
> > Cc: devel at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 9:04:05 AM
> > Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] [ENGINE] thoughts about LinqUtils
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs at redhat.com>
> > > To: devel at ovirt.org
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 5:50:44 AM
> > > Subject: [ovirt-devel] [ENGINE] thoughts about LinqUtils
> > > 
> > > Hi Engine developers (and others :) ),
> > > I would like to share some thoughts & questions with you about the future
> > > of
> > > LinqUtils
> > > 
> > > 1. Location of LinqUtils
> > > 
> > > Currently LinqUtils resides at utils.
> > > However, as LinqUtils contains some non engine related code, I think it
> > > should be moved to the new uutils (universal utils) project.
> > > uutils was introduced during the work on AAA, in order to provide a set
> > > of
> > > utilities that are not engine related, and hopefully in the future will
> > > be
> > > published as a separate artifcat on
> > > maven central (Alon, feel free to correct me here :) )
> > > 
> > 
> > +1
> > You'd probably have to address the entire org.ovirt.engine.core.utils.linq
> > package
> > and not just that specific class.
> > A sort of a clean-up is also required (i.e. remove IDE generated comments),
> > seems
> > like a good chance to do it.
> > 
> > > 2. The name LinqUtils - Linq comes from c#. I think these days are way
> > > behind
> > > us (3 years or so now?) i would like to suggest renaming the class.
> > > CollectionUtils? Any other suggestions are more than welcome
> > > 
> > 
> > +1
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Yair
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