Re: Delegation and generics craziness
Sideswipe wrote:
So,
I am trying to create a delegate Map that simply throws an exception
if an attempt to insert a duplicate key occurs. That code is simple.
However, the delegate code is not and I am getting compile errors with
regards to my generics. I make no claims to fully understand generics.
....
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;
}
Try this, see if it helps. If it does, consider picking up Effective
Java by Joshua Bloch. I also used _Learning Java_ by O'Reilly to puzzle
this out, but the relevant section is so short I'm not sure it's worth it.
class ExceptionOnDuplicateKeyMap<K, V> implements Map<K,V> {
private final Map<K,V> delegate;
public ExceptionOnDuplicateKeyMap(Map<? extends K, ? extends V>
delegate) {
this.delegate = (Map<K,V>) delegate;
}
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