Re: Generics headache

From:
Lew <brainwashedlunaticlewscanon@zombies.org>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:09:17 GMT
Message-ID:
<61EC101566E9EDD9C0@219.87.37.124>
Lew wrote:

I was asking for your insight in how to do the refactoring...


Chuck la Salle wrote:

But of course!
Currently, we have something like (but only 'like'):

abstract class Parser<T> {
        public abstract AST parse(Scanner scanner) ;
        public abstract void doAfterEachMatch(T value) ;

}

abstract class InterceptableParser<T> extends Parser<T> {
        // there isn't actually any foo, but YKWIM
        // the actual code is a bit too complicated to reproduce
        public void foo(T value) {
                this.doAfterEachMatch(value) ;
        }
}

I would refactor to:

abstract class Parser {
        public abstract AST parse(Scanner scanner) ;
}

abstract class ActionAfterMatchParser<T> extends Parser {
        public abstract void doAfterEachMatch(T value) ;
}

abstract class InterceptableParser<T> implements ActionAfterMatchParser<T=
{
        public void foo(T value) {
                this.doAfterEachMatch(value) ;
        }
}

I'd also change the purely abstract classes to interfaces.


Beautifully done.

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