Acolyte 1.2.3 Release

• ListsAcolyte.defaultIfNull will now return an empty ArrayList instead of an empty read-only list
• add support for enum to string copy in ObjectsAcolyte. This means enum variables with same name as a string variable from the second object will be successfully copied over. More support on ObjectsAcolyte .copy will be added in the near future

Acolyte 1.2.2 Release

• add fun defaultIfNull(number: Number?): Number to NumbersAcolyte
• add BigDecimalAcolyte with useful default methods

Acolyte 1.2.1 Release

• Fix null pointer exception when the return method value (ObjectsAcolyte) coming from Java, is null
• Fix validators extra quote issue

Acolyte 1.2.0 Release

Acolyte has been rewritten in Kotlin!

Acolyte 1.1.2 Release

Add equality functions to NumbersAcolyte

Acolyte 1.1.1 Release

NumbersAcolyte comes with more util functions like lessThanZero, lessThan, equalOrLessThanZero, equalOrLessThan
Added a Tag class

Acolyte 1.1.0 Release

Rename util classes into acolytes to better distinguish them from so many other util libraries.
Split ObjectsUtils into different acolytes by logic and purpose: ListsAcolyte, NumbersAcolyte, ObjectsAcolyte
Add more util methods to each acolyte

Acolyte 1.0.3 Release

Add more number related utils to ObjectsUtil

Acolyte 1.0.2 Release

Release Notes:

• Add NameValidator, UsernameValidator, PasswordValidator and EmailValidator
• Add Identifiable interface that can be used to mark classes as identifiable by ID, unique Name or unique Reference.
• Upgrade joda-time dependency version to 2.9.9

Acolyte 1.0.1 Release

This release comes with:

• ObjectsUtil copyObjectsIfMatch method has been renamed to copy for better readability.
• ObjectsUtil has been improved by adding more util methods like
  • listContainsIgnoreCase - check if list contains a string and ignore the case
  • numberNullOrZero and numberGreaterThanZero - that accepts any number params, including BigDecimals
  • objectNullOrEmpty - that can check if an object is null and if collection, will also check if it's empty
• PasswordValidator
• UsernameValidator