Re: enum/generics typesafe getter for generic types

From:
"visionset" <spam@ntlworld.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:54:14 GMT
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"Piotr Kobzda" <pikob@gazeta.pl> wrote in message
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visionset wrote:

Yes, but how do I now use this class to form a generic getter outside of
Key class?
For this kind of call:

String s = foo.get(Key.A_KEY);

because I'm not instantiating Key, I can't pass in a <Type> so I can't
form a generic method.


You can, declare it e.g. like that:

    public <T> T get(Key<T> key) { ...


But I think there is a T resolution issue outside the Key class.

public class Preference {

public static final Key<String> A_KEY = new Key<String>();

public static final Key<String> B_KEY = new Key<String>();

public static final Key<Integer> C_KEY = new Key<Integer>();

public static final Key<Integer> D_KEY = new Key<Integer>();

public static class Key<T> {

    // how to get T outside of Key class?

}

private Map<Key, T> map; // how to define this?

public <T> T get(Key<T> key) {

    // what goes here

    return map.get(T);

}

public void testGet() {

    String s = get(A_KEY);

}

--

Mike W

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