CodeSOD: ConVersion Version

Mads introduces today's code sample with this line: " this was before they used git to track changes".

Note, this is not to say that they were using SVN, or Mercurial, or even Visual Source Safe. They were not using anything. How do I know?

/**
  * Converts HTML to PDF using HTMLDOC.
  * 
  * @param printlogEntry
  ** @param inBytes
  *            html.
  * @param outPDF
  *            pdf.
  * @throws IOException
  *             when error.
  * @throws ParseException
*/
public void fromHtmlToPdfOld(PrintlogEntry printlogEntry, byte[] inBytes, final OutputStream outPDF) throws IOException, ParseException
	{...}

/**
 * Converts HTML to PDF using HTMLDOC.
 * 
 * @param printlogEntry
 ** @param inBytes
 *            html.
 * @param outPDF
 *            pdf.
 * @throws IOException
 *             when error.
 * @throws ParseException
 */
public void fromHtmlToPdfNew(PrintlogEntry printlogEntry, byte[] inBytes, final OutputStream outPDF) throws IOException, ParseException
	{...}

Originally, the function was just called fromHtmlToPdf. Instead of updating the implementation, or using it as a wrapper to call the correct implementation, they renamed it to Old, added one named New, then let the compiler tell them where they needed to update the code to use the new implementation.

Mads adds: "And this is just one example in this code. This far, I have found 5 of these."

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This post originally appeared on The Daily WTF.