Re: Generics

From:
"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help,comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:20:36 -0400
Message-ID:
<8Ychi.33499$qN.196096@weber.videotron.net>
"kofa" <kovacs.it@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1183114524.470649.204660@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...

Copying manually, casting individual elements solves that:
===
public <T extends Event> Set<EventListener<? super T>> get(Class<?
extends T> key) {
Set<EventListener<? super T>> listeners = new HashSet<EventListener<?
super T>>();
for (Entry<Class<? extends Event>, Set<EventListener<?>>> entry :
myListenersByType.entrySet()) {
listeners.add((EventListener<? super T>) entry.getValue());
}
return listeners;
}
===

Is there a nicer way?


    Depends on your metric for "niceness". I haven't been able to fully
get rid of warnings. I can move the warning around to different locations
where they might make more sense. For example, you could have the
listeners provide a way to "cast themselves" to the proper type:

<code>
class EventImpl<T extends Event> implements EventListener<T> {
 Class<? extends T> eventType;

 @Override
 public void eventRaised(T event) {
  // TODO Auto-generated method stub

 }

 @Override
 public <U extends Event> EventListener<? super U>
castSelfAsHandlerFor(Class<? extends U> clazz) {
     if (eventType.isAssignableFrom(clazz)) {
      return (EventListener<? super U>) this;
     } else {
      return null;
     }
 }
}
</code>

Or you could have the code in the event manager take advantage of the fact
that it just knows (but can't express this in the Java type system) that
Class<T> is mapped onto EventListener<T>:

<code>
 @Override
 public <T extends Event> void raiseEvent(T event) {
  for (Class<? extends Event> key : myListenersByType.keySet()) {
   if (key.isInstance(event)) {
    Set<EventListener<? super T>> listeners = myListenersByType
      .get((Class<? extends T>)key);
    for (EventListener<? super T> listener : listeners) {
     listener.eventRaised(event);
    }
   }
  }
 }
</code>

    - Oliver

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