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Development plan for 2.1

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1. \[http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29294 29294\] \[lang\]\[PATCH\] Fix the Fraction class - *Patch being reviewed.*

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   19331 \[lang\] General case: infinite loop: [ToStringBuilder].reflectionToString - *Need to confirm whether this is a bug*

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   20015 \[lang\] Make Entities public and unit test - *Entities. Needs finishing.*

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2. 21333 Add TimeoutController - Class in HttpClient. Needs evaluating.
3. 21333 Support HttpClient's DateParser class.
4. 22692 StringUtils.split ignores empty items
5. 24910 new StringUtils.split methods that split on the whole separator string - method signature issue

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   26297 \[lang\] [BitSetUtils] class, toIndexArray and fromIndexArray - *DONE - Gary to confirm, looks like primitive overloads are still needed*

New

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   2967322172 \[lang\] [ExceptionUtils]: new getCause() methodname (for tomcat-exception) - *Confusing*DateUtils].parseCVS behavior parsing "h:mm z"

2. 25560 DateUtils.truncate() is off by one hour when using a date in DST switch 'zone'

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   26922 \[lang\] public static boolean [DateUtils].equals(Date dt1, Date dt2)

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   2969215082 \[lang\] Stringelapsed time indentationformatting featureutility requestmethod - *DurationFormatUtils. Needs design as a non-simple problemfinishing.*

5. 29794 Add convenience format(long) methods to FastDateFormat - Needs improvement
6. 29163 Make StopWatch validate state transitions - Coding needed
   

Pushed back

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   21663 \[lang\] Add support in [ToStringStyle] for [DateFormat]. - *Grows quickly into commons-convert*

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   27643 \[lang\]\[patch\] [ClassUtils].newInstance method - *Seems unnecessary*

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   29149 \[lang\] [StringEscapeUtils].unescapeHtml() doesn't handle an empty entity - *Empty entity is in fact illegal HTML, so need to decide if we should ignore. Current behaviour seems acceptable as we're not in the work with bad HTML market.*

4. StringBuffer replacement - Probably 2.2/3.0. A lot of work in this I'd imagine.

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   26659 \[lang\] add method to [DateUtils] to get the distance between 2 dates - *Mainly replicated by [DurationFormatUtils], or non-obvious*

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   29692 \[lang\] String indentation feature request - *Needs design as a non-simple problem* \\

Resolved list

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   27592 \[lang\] [WordUtils] capitalize improvement - *DONE*

2. 23557 WordUtils.capitalizeFully(String str) should take a delimiter - DONE

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   27778 \[lang\] add remove methods to [ArrayUtils] - *DONE*

4. StringTokenizer replacement: (DONE - Tokenizer)

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   25227 \[lang\] [StringEscapeUtils].unescapeHtml() doesn't handle hex entities - *DONE*

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   27640 \[lang\]\[patch\] [ClassUtils].primitivesToWrappers method - *DONE*
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   22717 \[lang\] [MutableNumbers] - *see lang.mutable.*

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   23749 \[lang\] \[PATCH\] [NumberRange] - adds inclusive and exclusive end points - *WONTFIX*

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   27876 \[lang\] [ReflectionToStringBuilder].toString(null) throws exception by design - *DONE*

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   27877 \[lang\]\[patch\] Make [ClassUtils] methods null-safe and not throw an IAE. - *DONE*

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    26056 \[lang\] Add methods to [ArrayUtils]: add at end and insert-like ops - *DONE*

11. StringUtils.ordinalIndexOf() - Appears to be DONE

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    29673 \[lang\] [ExceptionUtils]: new getCause() methodname (for tomcat-exception) - *DONE* \\

Seeking opinions

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   22717 \[lang\] [MutableNumbers] - *see lang.mutable.*

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   18962 \[lang\] New Method: getSubstitutedValues( String, Map ) - *org.apache.commons.lang.Interpolation available for opinions*