8149816: TIFFField#getValueAsString result is unexpected for RATIONAL and SRATIONAL types (when modulo is 0)

Add more precision to the specification verbiage of getValueAsString().

Reviewed-by: prr
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Brian Burkhalter 2016-05-04 10:01:00 -07:00
parent 214029ed2b
commit fa5b3ae32f

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@ -1303,7 +1303,11 @@ public class TIFFField implements Cloneable {
* version of the data item. Data of type
* {@code TIFFTag.TIFF_RATIONAL} or {@code TIFF_SRATIONAL} are
* represented as a pair of integers separated by a
* {@code '/'} character.
* {@code '/'} character. If the numerator of a
* {@code TIFFTag.TIFF_RATIONAL} or {@code TIFF_SRATIONAL} is an integral
* multiple of the denominator, then the value is represented as
* {@code "q/1"} where {@code q} is the quotient of the numerator and
* denominator.
*
* @param index The index of the data.
* @return The data at the given index as a {@code String}.