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Why not use ArrayString class in factory method of Array class? #1077
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Not only are we not using So maybe it's best to just nuke it. Anyone disagree? |
@DennisHeimbigner It looks like you were the one who added the class originally. Any thoughts? |
I think the reason we have the factory return an |
As a user at least I want to get DataType.STRING from the created string array by factory method. |
@Yaqiang Currently, |
@DennisHeimbigner poke |
I do not understand this point. what do columns and rows have to do with variable length strings? |
@DennisHeimbigner - yeah, I was way confused in my response. I was thinking of what to do if one wanted to try to promote a char array to string array - my bad! So, I think sticking with ArrayObject in 4.6.x is a must for backward compatibility. However, as @Yaqiang pointed out, getting back an |
factory method in Array class:
ArrayObject was used if DataType is STRING. So why not use ArrayString class?
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