[armedbear-devel] TYPE-ERROR #<java.lang.String foo {BADEAFFE}> cannot be coerced to a string.

[Alessio Stalla]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Mario Lang <mlang at delysid.org> wrote:
> Alessio Stalla <alessiostalla at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Mario Lang <mlang at delysid.org> wrote:
>>> Just stumbled across this one when I tried to use STRING-EQUAL
>>> to compare a value I received via JINTERFACE-IMPLEMENTATION.
>>>
>>> Now, it appears to be very simple to allow the expression
>>>
>>>  (string (jnew "java.lang.String" "foo"))
>>>
>>> by overriding STRING() in JavaObject and checking if obj is a (java) String.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> I think it would be a valuable addition, but why limit it to Strings?
>> (string java-object) could always return the result of calling
>> toString() on the wrapped object, or "null" when it's null.
>
> Thats certainly an option, but I didn't want to make the initial proposal
> to broad. :-)  toString() is a method of java.lang.Object,
> so JavaObject#STRING could indeed just call toString without checking
> for the class of obj.  In fact, the more I think of it the better it
> sounds.
>
> If there is consensus, I can prepare an update patch if need be (its
> simple enough anyways).

+1 :)

I just wanted to add that I checked that the CL standard allows this:
"string might perform additional, implementation-defined conversions".

Bye,
Alessio