JwtParser to parse CharSequence instead of String?

[zolyfarkas]

JwtParser parameters that get parsed are all String, can these be made to CharSequence? it would make this a bit more flexible...

[azagniotov]

I am not sure I agree with having CharSequence type parameters in the public interfaces without a strong justification.

My main concern here is that implementations of CharSequence are not guaranteed to be immutable, while String is.

[lhazlewood]

I don't understand the request exactly - can you show a code snippet example of what you're asking for?

[lhazlewood]

Closing due to inactivity or follow up from OP.

[zolyfarkas]

well somehow I missed the notifications for the followup questions... this awesome email spam filters in action...

the idea is when parsing from some source CharSequence is a bit more flexible... (String, StringBuilder ...)

for an example, in class Integer you have both:

public static int parseUnsignedInt(String s, int radix)

and:
public static int parseUnsignedInt(CharSequence s, int beginIndex, int endIndex, int radix)

in case on JWT, lets say the web token needs to be parsed out of a string like:

"Bearer [JWT token]"

I want tp avoid doing a substring() and allocate memory for no good reason.. having a CharSequence parsing variant I could simply do: parse(myString, "Bearer ".length(), myString.length())

The existing interfaces don't need to be changed....

[lhazlewood]

Reopening, but I don't know when we'll get to it. This is low priority given the 1.0 feature set we need to support.

[lhazlewood]

The IO Streams work commited via b687ca5 makes this much easier, so we can sneak it in for 0.12.0. I should have a PR shortly.