Renaming the method is fine. We don't change the API for the sake of it but if there is a need to then it is fine.
Mark Nick Williams <nicho...@nicholaswilliams.net> wrote: >I'm implementing the Part#getSubmittedFileName method introduced in >SERVLET_SPEC-57 [1]. > >o.a.c.core.ApplicationPart already has a getFilename method that >accomplishes this that is not part of the interface but IS public. This >method is used only in o.a.c.connector.Request (once), but that's easy >to change. The concern is that renaming this method might break >applications that depend on the old method name (despite the fact that >using Tomcat proprietary code makes their application non-portable). Is >it a problem to rename this method in a new major version, or should >Part have both methods, with one calling the other? > >[1] http://java.net/jira/browse/SERVLET_SPEC-57 >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
