Changes between Version 27 and Version 28 of j2p

Timestamp:

06/21/23 10:42:29 (17 months ago)

Author:

wouter

Comment:

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j2p

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 (2) is currently very partial. The reason is that there are a huge number of java classes and even more 3rd party libraries, and almost every field and function in it will need a specialized translator. This will grow slowly over time as needed.
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+The mechanism assumes a fixed mapping from java to python objects, as in the table below. This fixed mapping is needed to ensure the translator can be sure which objects will appear on the python side of the translation, so that proper actions can be taken to further the translation.
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+||java||python||remarks||
+||int||int||
+||float,Float,double,Double||float||in Java, float and double overflow at different places. Translation may fail if code depends on overflow behaviour||
+||BigDecimal||Decimal||
+||Map, HashMap||dict||
+||Set||set||