Nick Williams <nicho...@nicholaswilliams.net> wrote:

>
>On Mar 9, 2013, at 3:49 PM, Mark Thomas wrote:
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>> 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
>
>Look at you top-posting. :-P

:-) 

Sorry. Mobile client wasn't configured properly.


>You replied just as I was. I deprecated getFilename and wrapped it
>around getSubmittedFileName and submitted patch via bug #54658.
>
>Let me know if I should just remove it and re-submit patch.

No need. We can backport it to 7.0.x with the deprecation and then remove it in 
8.0.x after.

Note Konstantin's comments though.

Mark
>
>Nick
>
>> 
>> 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
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