Re: nested generic HashMap problem

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:02:49 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
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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.


Lew wrote:

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


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Chris Riesbeck wrote:

That defines a Map of Maps of one type T. I.e., you can make one
Registry where an instance of Demo<Book> retrieves a Map of type <Long,
Book>, and another Registry where a key of type Demo<Author> retrieves a
Map of type <Long, Author>.

But you can't define a single Registry where a Demo<Book> retrieves a
Map<Long, Book> and Demo<Author> retrieves a Map<Long, Author>.


That isn't what you asked for in the post to which I replied.

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Lew
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