Details
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Bug
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Status: Open
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Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Description
As reported on the ML, Findbugs complains that == is being used to compare objects in the class DurationFormatUtils.
These objects are the strings which define the various durations: "y", "M", "d" etc. These are final static objects (singletons) so the use of == should be OK but it is not good practice.
One way to avoid the warnings would be to use an Enum for the singleton objects. For example:
enum Duration { YEAR, MONTH, ... } static final ParseObject y = ParseObject.YEAR; static final ParseObject M = ParseObject.MONTH; ...
Note: the package protected fields y, M etc are currently needed for the unit tests.
The above change would then allow the format() method to use a switch statement which would likely be faster than the if chain it has to use now.
Eliminating the warnings for == which are currently safe would make it obvious if == was used elsewhere in an unsafe way.