Re: Unchecked call to compareTo
Daniel Pitts wrote:
Russell Wallace wrote:
I'm trying to sort some data returned from a database (in rows and
columns, where a column may be BigDecimal, String or whatever, something
that implements compareTo anyway), and I'm fine up until the actual
comparison function. This is as close as I've got with it:
int compare(Record a, Record b) {
Comparable ca = (Comparable<?>) get(a);
Comparable cb = (Comparable<?>) get(b);
return ca.compareTo(cb);
}
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I do not believe that suppressing the warning here is the answer, but instead
to declare the method with generic types in the first place.
Something along the lines of
<T extends Comparable<? super T>> int compare( T a, T b )
{
return a.compareTo( b );
}
The exact form depends on what you actually are trying to do: compare Records?
Compare a type buried in a Record? Compare the exact type, or things that
extend a common supertype?
You cannot cast with a generic because of type erasure, but here you likely do
not need such a cast.
Warning: I am still rough with generics, and I have not tried the code I
suggested.
- Lew
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