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ASF GitHub Bot commented on MNG-7714: ------------------------------------- elharo commented on code in PR #1099: URL: https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/1099#discussion_r1235040466 ########## maven-artifact/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/versioning/ComparableVersion.java: ########## @@ -353,15 +359,15 @@ public int getType() { @Override public boolean isNull() { - return (comparableQualifier(value).compareTo(RELEASE_VERSION_INDEX) == 0); + return value == null || value.isEmpty(); } /** * Returns a comparable value for a qualifier. - * + * <p> * This method takes into account the ordering of known qualifiers then unknown qualifiers with lexical * ordering. - * + * <p> * just returning an Integer with the index here is faster, but requires a lot of if/then/else to check for -1 Review Comment: From here to the end is implementation detail. It's a good comment but it isn't needed in API doc. Move this part to a regular comment. ########## maven-artifact/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/versioning/ComparableVersion.java: ########## @@ -422,6 +439,106 @@ public String toString() { } } + /** + * Represents a combination in the version item list. + * It is usually a combination of a string and a number, with the string first and the number second Review Comment: nit: period at end > sp < final > ---------- > > Key: MNG-7714 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7714 > Project: Maven > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Elliotte Rusty Harold > Assignee: Elliotte Rusty Harold > Priority: Major > Fix For: 4.0.0-alpha-7 > > > Ported from a comment on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7701 > The claim is that sp < final, which if true is incorrect according to spec. > It is easy to demonstrate that this is not fixed and also not in line with > the spec, with just this one important example (yes this does break for us): > $ jbang org.apache.maven:maven-artifact:3.8.6 1.0.final-redhat-0001 > 1.0.sp1-redhat-0001 > Display parameters as parsed by Maven (in canonical form and as a list of > tokens) and comparison result: > 1. 1.0.final-redhat-0001 -> 1-redhat-1; tokens: [1, [redhat, [1]]] > 1.0.final-redhat-0001 < 1.0.sp1-redhat-0001 > 2. 1.0.sp1-redhat-0001 -> 1.0.sp-1-redhat-1; tokens: [1, 0, sp, [1, [redhat, > [1]]]] > versus > $ jbang org.apache.maven:maven-artifact:3.8.7 1.0.final-redhat-0001 > 1.0.sp1-redhat-0001 > Display parameters as parsed by Maven (in canonical form and as a list of > tokens) and comparison result: > 1. 1.0.final-redhat-0001 -> 1-redhat-1; tokens: [1, [redhat, [1]]] > 1.0.final-redhat-0001 > 1.0.sp1-redhat-0001 > 2. 1.0.sp1-redhat-0001 -> 1-sp-1-redhat-1; tokens: [1, [sp, [1, [redhat, > [1]]]]] > As you can see, our `sp` release is now ordered after our `final` release > despite this clear text in the "spec": > Non-numeric tokens ("qualifiers") have the alphabetical order, except for > the following tokens which come first in this order: "alpha" < "beta" < > "milestone" < "rc" = "cr" < "snapshot" < "" = "final" = "ga" < "sp" > It's clear that this tokenization isn't really correct by any reasonable > measurement, and breaking large amounts of (our) existing artifacts in the > wild is definitely not OK. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)