Re: Delegation and generics craziness

From:
Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:02:08 GMT
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On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:00:23 -0700 (PDT), Sideswipe
<christian.bongiorno@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

public class ExceptionOnDuplicateKeyMap<K, V> implements Map<K,V> {
   private final Map<? extends K, ? extends V> delegate;

   public ExceptionOnDuplicateKeyMap(Map<? extends K, ? extends V>
delegate) {
       this.delegate = delegate;
   }

   public void clear() {
       delegate.clear();
   }

   public boolean containsKey(Object key) {
       return delegate.containsKey(key);
   }

   public boolean containsValue(Object value) {
       return delegate.containsValue(value);
   }

   public Set<Entry<K, V>> entrySet() {
       return delegate.entrySet(); // error here
   }

   public V get(Object key) {
       return delegate.get(key);
   }

   public boolean isEmpty() {
       return delegate.isEmpty();
   }

   public Set<K> keySet() {
       return delegate.keySet(); // error here
   }

   public V put(K key, V value) {
       if(delegate.containsKey(key))
           throw new IllegalArgumentException();
       return delegate.put(key,value); // error here
   }

   public void putAll(Map<? extends K, ? extends V> m) {
       for (Entry<? extends K, ? extends V> entry : m.entrySet())
           put(entry.getKey(),entry.getValue());
   }

   public V remove(Object key) {
       return delegate.remove(key);
   }

   public int size() {
       return delegate.size();
   }

   public Collection<V> values() {
       return delegate.values(); // error here
   }

}


your first problem is you are missing your imports:
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

After you fix that you are left with:

ExceptionOnDuplicateKeyMap.java:33: incompatible types
found : java.util.Set<java.util.Map.Entry<capture#674 of ? extends
K,capture#787 of ? extends V>>
required: java.util.Set<java.util.Map.Entry<K,V>>
      return delegate.entrySet(); // error here
                              ^
ExceptionOnDuplicateKeyMap.java:48: incompatible types
found : java.util.Set<capture#774 of ? extends K>
required: java.util.Set<K>
      return delegate.keySet(); // error here
                            ^
ExceptionOnDuplicateKeyMap.java:55: put(capture#371 of ? extends
K,capture#681 of ? extends V) in ja
va.util.Map<capture#371 of ? extends K,capture#681 of ? extends V>
cannot be applied to (K,V)
      return delegate.put(key,value); // error here
                     ^
ExceptionOnDuplicateKeyMap.java:76: incompatible types
found : java.util.Collection<capture#972 of ? extends V>
required: java.util.Collection<V>
      return delegate.values(); // error here
                            ^
The mismatches are fairly obvious. The problem what do you do to fix
them. Have a look at source code for

/**
     * Constructs a new <tt>HashMap</tt> with the same mappings as the
     * specified <tt>Map</tt>. The <tt>HashMap</tt> is created with
     * default load factor (0.75) and an initial capacity sufficient
to
     * hold the mappings in the specified <tt>Map</tt>.
     *
     * @param m the map whose mappings are to be placed in this map
     * @throws NullPointerException if the specified map is null
     */
    public HashMap(Map<? extends K, ? extends V> m) {
        this(Math.max((int) (m.size() / DEFAULT_LOAD_FACTOR) + 1,
                      DEFAULT_INITIAL_CAPACITY), DEFAULT_LOAD_FACTOR);
        putAllForCreate(m);
    }

It is similar to what you want to do.
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