Re: nested generic HashMap problem

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Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.spamfilter@virtualinfinity.net>

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Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:51:46 -0700

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On 4/27/2010 7:39 AM, Lew wrote:

Chris Riesbeck wrote:

I don't follow the "don't have a type" part here. The correlation I was
trying to capture was

T get(Demo<T>, long)

using an underlying Map(Demo<T>, Map<long, T>). That seems to me to be
well-defined, just not definable in Java.

What do you mean, not definable? That's exactly how you define it,
what you wrote just there, modulo the typos.

class Registry<T>
{
  private final Map<Demo<T>, Map<Long, T>> demoMaps =
    new HashMap<Demo<T>, Map<Long, T>> ();

  ...
}

Lew, the problem is "T" is different for every key of the map.

map.put(String.class, new Map<Long, String>());
map.put(Foo.class, new Map<Long, Foo>());

There is no definition for Map<Class<...>, ...> which will fit the above
usecases.

One will need to carefully ensure the key matches the value, and cast
appropriately, or not use a java.util.Map.

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