[LANG-495] Possible implementation of max/min using generics

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sebb
• Created: 18/Mar/09 13:24
• Updated: 16/May/09 07:32
• Resolved: 20/Mar/09 17:13

Description

Attached is a patch to add generics to max and min.
It seems to work OK with the current tests.

It causes a compile-time error if one tries to code e.g. ObjectUtils.max(String,Integer).
Previously that was allowed, but would cause a class cast exception at run time.

Can anyone review please?

BTW, the tests for max/min use Comparable instead of Date - is there a good reason for this? User code is likely to use the actual type in this case.
Changing Comparable to Date fixes various raw type warnings.