[LANG-1048] Improve internationalisation by accepting more than one possible true string value in BooleanUtils.toBoolean()

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.3.2
• Fix Version/s: Patch Needed, Discussion
• Component/s: lang.*
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Duncan Jones
• Created: 14/Oct/14 13:23
• Updated: 07/Aug/17 16:36

Description

As part of a recent ML discussion it was noted that BooleanUtils.toBoolean(String) is biased towards English speakers.

We could match the behaviour of this method for non-English users by adding:

boolean toBoolean(String str, String... trueStrings)

and match in a case-insensitive fashion. Anything that doesn't match a true string is false.

The current toBoolean(String) method would just be a special case of this new method, with the arguments toBoolean(str, "true", "on", "y", "t", "yes").